Ferris Cook is an award-winning illustrator, writer, editor, and gardener. Her books include "Garden Dreams" (1991) and "Invitation to the Garden" (1992), both of which won Quill & Trowel awards from the Garden Writers Association of America. She and her husband, Ken Krabbenhoft, collaborated on two illustrated collections of poems by Pablo Neruda, "Odes to Common Things" (1994) and "Odes to Opposites" (1995). She gardens in upstate New York.