Angela Cannon-Crothers is an environmental educator, author, and writer, with degrees in science and education. She publishes articles on nature and parenting as well as short stories. Her fiction has appeared in Stone Canoe and LadyBug and her true stories have appeared in the anthologies A Mile In Her Boots: Women Who Work in the Wild (Solas Hous, 2006) and The Ultimate Bird Lover (2010). She is the author of The Wildcrafter (a novel), Grape Pie Season (a children’s story), and is the recipient of several poetry awards. Cannon-Crothers is the recipient of the 2010 Writers & Books Big Pencil Award for Teacher of Young People.