Award winning author Amy Stewart will give a public presenation about her newest book Wicked Bugs. This special event with artist Briony Morrow-Cribbs is being held in conjuction with Gallery I's spring exhibition Beastly Prints: Modern Interpretations of the Art of the Bestiary.
Amy Stewart is the author of five books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world, including two New York Times bestsellers, Wicked Plants and Flower Confidential. She has appeared on hundreds of national and regional radio and television programs, including CBS Sunday Morning, NPR's Morning Edition, and Good Morning America. She has written for the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and every national garden magazine, including Fine Gardening, where she is a contributing editor.
She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the American Horticulture Society's Book Award, and a California Horticultural Society Writer's Award.
Stewart lives in Eureka, California, with her husband Scott Brown. They own an antiquarian bookstore called Eureka Books and tend a flock of unruly hens in their backyard.
Visit AmyStewart.com for more information about the author and her books.
View a video trailer for Wicked Bugs»