M. Troy
Salisbury
About M. Troy Salisbury
"Twenty-seven years of watching how communities work, the people, the politics, the distance between what gets decided in a meeting room and what actually happens on the ground, turns out to be a very good education for writing fiction."
- Troy Salisbury
Troy Salisbury is an urban planner with 27 years of professional experience, a professor at the University of South Florida, and a five-time marathoner. He has spent his career studying how communities are built, how they fail, and how the people inside them navigate both.
That understanding of place, the dynamics of small towns, the weight of institutional decisions, and the way geography and community intersect shape everything in The Watershed Man. Reed Calder's cover as an environmental consultant draws directly from the world Salisbury has inhabited professionally. Millhaven feels real because people like Millhaven are real.
When he’s not writing or teaching, Troy runs, enthusiastically, and with an unreasonable number of race registrations — alongside his wife Jennifer and their two goldendoodles, Elvis and Zoey, in Apollo Beach, Florida.
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