Brandi Card

Brandi Card is a 50-something island girl who gave up adulthood, or maybe avoided it entirely, when she moved to Marathon at the tender age of 22, from Tucson, Arizona.

During her several decades in the Keys, she has bagged bait, gassed boats, wrote grants, cleaned hulls, poured beers, dug ditches, coached swimmers, schmoozed tourists, rubbed backs, painted trap buoys, life guarded at Pigeon Key and wrote for the Florida Keys Keynoter about the City of Marathon’s first council.

In 2000, her story in the Keynoter about the privatization of Marathon’s new city government, garnered the First Amendment Defense (Jon A. Roosenraad) Award from the Florida Press Association.

Nowadays, when she’s not fantasizing about fun story ideas and colorful characters, she’s the benevolent sadist of Island Pilates.

She lives in Marathon with her own personal Jackson Alwood.