Erica Browne Grivas is a lifelong journalist and gardener based in Seattle, WA. Her award-winning feature stories seen in Horticulture Magazine, the Seattle Times, and Birds and Blooms often explore the interplay of people and nature. Her garden writing is enriched by studies in landscape design from the New York Botanical Garden, and professional experience as a gardener and at nurseries on both coasts. Erica represents the Western US for Garden Communicators International as a board member. Her personal record is growing 120 tomato plants on a city lot in Seattle.