Aurelia C. Scott lives in Portland, Maine with her husband and a Cape Cod Weeder. She moved to Maine in 1997 from Taos, NM, where she helped start a children’s garden and found a Habitat for Humanity project. Her first non-fiction book, Otherwise Normal People: Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening won the Garden Writers Association Gold Award for Best Book Writing. She has also won the Writer's Digest Grand Prize. (And her school history and science prizes in ninth grade, an accomplishment that went immediately to her head.) As Contributing Editor for AudioFile Magazine, she interviews authors and audiobook narrators, and listens to so many audiobooks that her ears turn numb. She has also served as Historical Editor for Garden Compass Magazine, writing profiles of the luminaries of yesteryear's plant world. Her first published piece was a feature article for American Heritage Magazine’s Invention and Technology series about the ancient irrigation system she used to water her New Mexico gardens. Aurelia has since written personal essays, and articles people, plants, and travel, for the New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, Down East, and Fine Gardening among many other publications. Currently, she is writing a fantasy adventure novel set in the 19th century and a memoir about women, lingerie, and nakedness. Aurelia is a Portland Trails past President and Advisory Trustee, and volunteers as a Master Gardener in the Yardscaping demonstration gardens on Portland’s Back Cove. This most frequently involves an astonishing amount of hand-weeding.