Tom Horton – author – FirstLight Instructor

Tom Horton is a native of Maryland’s Eastern Shore. He covered Chesapeake Bay for the Baltimore Sun for more than 30 years, and wrote environmental stories for numerous magazines, including the New York Times, Rolling Stone, National Geographic and Audubon. He is author of eight books on the Chesapeake, including Island Out of Time, a memoir of three years he and his family lived on Smith Island.  His book, Bay Country, won the John Burroughs Award, given annually for the best book of nature writing in the U.S.

Currently he lives in Salisbury Maryland where he teaches at Salisbury University, and works on books and magazine stories. He has circumnavigated the Delmarva Peninsula by kayak and by bicycle, and has  recently developed a series of paddling trails on Smith Island.