Joshua Lawrence Kinser is a native Floridian from Pensacola who spends the better part of each year traveling the entire length of the state\'s Gulf Coast.
He currently splits his time between Black Mountain, North Carolina, and Gulf Breeze, Florida..
When he isn\'t writing guidebooks, Joshua is busy writing fiction and nonfiction.
He is passionate about the outdoors and is always searching for the Best freshwater springs, hiking trails, campsites, and fishing spots along the Florida Gulf Coast.
As a wildlife biology tech, he has worked in Florida, Hawai\'i Volcanoes National Park, Glacier National Park in Montana, and in the forests surrounding Yosemite National Park in California.
Joshua honed his writing skills working as a staff writer for The Pensacola News Journal and publishing articles for magazines such as SAIL and Times of the Islands .
After bouncing between jobs for more than a decade, traveling around the world as a writer, a wildlife biology research technician, and a professional drummer on cruise ships, he returned to Florida to write full-time.
Joshua Lawrence Kinser is a native Floridian from Pensacola who spends the better part of each year traveling the entire length of the state\'s Gulf Coast