Victoria I. Sullivan is an author, botanist and photographer. She studied biology at the University of Miami, has a Ph.D. in biology from Florida State University and held a faculty position in the Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette for 20 years. She has published poetry, flash fiction, numerous botanical papers and other nonfiction, and most recently, Adoption, a speculative novel, Why Water Plants Don't Drown, a book for nature lovers, and a photographically illustrated book of poetry, Between Plants and People with Diane Marquart Moore. Edward E. Schilling, a botani...