About Amy Stewart
“A passionate and inquisitive writer”
“Her ease in gliding from worms to plants to humans will remind readers of John McPhee’s essays on canoes, oranges, the geology of America.”
Amy Stewart lives in Eureka, California, with her husband Scott Brown, co-founder and editor of Fine Books & Collections magazine. They own an antiquarian bookstore called Eureka Books and tend a flock of unruly hens in their backyard.
Stewart's essays and commentaries have appeared in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Garden Design, Organic Gardening, and elsewhere. She's been featured on NPR, Good Morning America and CBS Sunday Morning. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) granted her a Creative Writing Fellowship for 2006.
She is the author of From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden and The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms, both from Algonquin Books. Her newest book is the New York Times bestselling Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers. Recent honors and awards include:
- NEA grant recipient, 2006
- California Horticultural Society's Writer's Award 2005
- Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Authors” Program
- Discovery Channel Book Club Selection
- Book translations into Dutch, Japanese, French, and Korean
- Rave reviews from the New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Entertainment Weekly, and others
- National Public Radio guest; frequent radio and television appearances
- Lecture and workshops at the American Museum of Natural History, Northwest Flower & Garden Show, United States Botanic Garden, and California Academy of Sciences
Amy Stewart blogs with a group of opinionated gardeners at GardenRant and on her own at Dirt.
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PO Box 106
Eureka, CA 95502
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