About
A freelance writer for over 30 years, Audrey Stallsmith has specialized in garden-related nonfiction for the last 10 years. She has been writing for BobVila.com since October of 2020 and is also a mystery novelist and photographer.
Experience
Audrey is the author of the Thyme Will Tell gardening-related mystery series from WaterBrook Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House. A former master gardener with over 30 years of horticultural experience, she has been published in Woman’s World, Birds & Blooms, Writer’s Digest, and more. She has also written hundreds of gardening articles for such sites as eHow, SFGATE, and Dave’s Garden, as well as her own Thyme Will Tell site.
Winner of a second-place award in a Horticulture Magazine photography contest and occasional correspondent for the Greenville Record-Argus, Audrey also has contributed poultry articles to Grit’s Community Chickens site, Acres U.S.A., and Farming Magazine. Audrey lives on a small farm in Pennsylvania where a menagerie of pets, free-ranging poultry, and occasionally escaped livestock make horticulture a challenge—but a highly enjoyable one!
Education
Audrey graduated cum laude from Houghton College with a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing and a minor in studio art. She also completed the Pennsylvania master gardener program.
Highlights
- Expertise: Former master gardener and long-term horticulturist
- Education: Bachelor of Arts in creative writing from Houghton College
- Other work: Mystery novelist and newspaper correspondent published in a wide variety of print publications as well as online ones
Best DIY Advice
“I’m fond of garden paths myself, especially twisty ones where you can’t see what’s around the next bend. The beauty of both life and horticulture is that we never know what will be coming up next. Perhaps it’s time we embraced that uncertainty rather than resenting it.”
