A former field biologist, Susannah Buhrman-Deever writes picture books that are inspired by the living world. Predator and Prey: A Conversation in Verse (illus. by Bert Kitchen) was named a 2019 Best Book for Children by the New York Public Library. If You Take Away the Otter (illus. by Matthew Trueman), received a 2021 Cook Prize Honor, and was named a 2021 American Library Association Notable Children’s Book and a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. Her latest book is Before the Seed: How Pollen Moves (illus. by Gina Triplett and Matt Curtius).