Meet Our Authors
LISA DOSEFF
Author Lisa Doseff is a Lancaster National Wildlife Federation Habitat Steward and a former Virginia Master Gardener. She also co-founded a neighborhood garden club that focuses on creating beautiful pollinator gardens using native plants that appeal to both people and wildlife.
DUNCAN ROBERTSON
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In her volunteer work, she’s helped to install and maintain native plantings at public gardens, local schools, and places of worship and has been involved in various children’s gardening projects as well. She hears in her faith the call to be a responsible caretaker of the earth and to inspire others to see the beauty and importance of restoring natural habitat. Above all, she’s a grandmother who wants to see her grandchildren inherit a thriving, ecologically sound world. This is her first book.
Lisa loves gardening, hiking, travel and especially spending time with her husband, Dave and their grandchildren. For that reason, they moved from Virginia to Lancaster, Pennsylvania where their grandkids live. Making their garden more habitat-friendly and kid-friendly is a constant work in progress—one the entire family thoroughly enjoys! Books by Lisa Doseff
With a childhood backyard wild from amateur gardening experiments and overgrown back woods, Duncan has always enjoyed exploring the outdoors. Raised in a family of artists, he learned to respond to and interpret the world around him through art from an early age. Leaving his familiar backyard in Maryland to grow his craft as a visual storyteller, he moved to the city of Richmond, Virginia, where he graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2009 with a BFA from the Department of Communication Arts and attended The Illustration Academy that summer.
Duncan continues to explore the isolated train tracks, dramatic waters, and lively, ever-evolving streets of Richmond with his wife and kids. Nature continues to inspire his art even more now through the lens of his children's exploration and discovery of all things humming, buzzing, and chirping. |
HEATHER HOLMWEBSITE
www.PollinatorsNativePlants.com PollinatorsNativePlants Twitter BeesNativePlant Instagram beesnativeplants iNaturalist www.inaturalist.org/people/heatherholm |
Heather Holm is a pollinator conservationist and author of four books: Pollinators of Native Plants (2014), Bees (2017), Wasps (2021), and Common Native Bees of the Eastern United States (2022). Both Bees and Wasps have won multiple book awards including the American Horticultural Society Book Award (2018 and 2022 respectively).
Heather’s expertise includes the interactions between native pollinators and native plants, and the natural history and biology of native bees and predatory wasps. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and many local publications. Heather is also an accomplished photographer and her pollinator photos are frequently featured in print and electronic publications. Heather is a National Honorary Director of Wild Ones. She also serves on the boards of the following non-profits: Friends of Cullen Nature Preserve and Bird Sanctuary, Friends of Minnetonka Parks, and her local Wild Ones chapter, Prairie Edge. In her spare time, she is an active community supporter, writing grants, and coordinating and participating in volunteer ecological landscape restoration projects. The latest project is a 13-acre oak savanna restoration that will provide thriving habitat for pollinators, birds, mammals, and passive, nature-based opportunities for people. Books by Heather Holm
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SCOTT KINGWEBSITES
Of Books and Bugs https://ofbooksandbugs.wordpress.com/ iNaturalist www.inaturalist.org/people/scottking |
Scott King is the founder and editor of Red Dragonfly Press. He is the author of several books of poetry, most recently All Graced in Green and Dragonfly Haiku (w/ Ken Tennessen), and translator of books by Greek poet Yannis Ritsos and Persian poet Fereydoun Faryad. In recent years he has begun writing natural history, publishing a series of volumes of field notes about dragonflies and a guidebook to the wasps and bees of Minnesota.
In 2017, Scott King set himself the challenge of submitting at least one observation to an online, citizen science database each day of the year. These daily observations consisted of photos and a journal entry. The 365 journal entries were subsequently published as Following the Earth Around: Journal of a Naturalist’s Year (Thistlewords Press, 2019). He has numerous writing projects in progress but hopes to finish a revision of Dragonflies and Damselflies of Minnesota: Atlas and Annotated Checklist (Thistlewords Press, 2018) and publish his decade-long project Meadowhawks: A Natural History of the Red Dragonflies. Scott tragically passed away April 2, 2021, weeks before the release of his latest book, Flower Flies of Minnesota. He was a lifelong Minnesota resident. Books by Scott King
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ANGELLA MOOREHOUSENatural Areas Preservation Specialist
Illinois Nature Preserves Commission |
Angella has worked for 27 years in west-central Illinois as a field representative for the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission. She got her BS and MS degrees in biology from Western Illinois University with a focus on avian and plant ecology. Her principal duties involve the long-term protection of high-quality natural areas using conservation easements, land acquisition, and management agreements.
Angella has spent the past 8 years using photography to document location, habitat, and plant associations for insects and other terrestrial invertebrates. In conjunction with the Field Museum in Chicago, she has published rapid field guides using her photographs to aid in field identification for wasps, flies, bees, and moths. She serves as the species lead for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources for the regal fritillary butterfly and coordinator for the terrestrial invertebrate endangered species technical advisory committee. She has been married for 32 years to Dan Moorehouse. They live in far-west-central Illinois, across from the southeast tip of Iowa and the northeast tip of Missouri, with their 17-year-old son, Zed, and 17-year-old foster son, Creos. Books by Angella Moorehouse
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