Merlin Sheldrake & Eugenia Bone

Teaches at New York Botanical Garden

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and winner of the Royal Society Book Prize and the Wainwright Prize.

Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, and works with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks and the Fungi Foundation. A keen brewer and fermenter, he is fascinated by the relationships that arise between humans and more-than-human organisms. (www.merlinsheldrake.com)

Eugenia Bone is a critically acclaimed journalist, with an emphasis on food, fungi, and other microorganisms, and former president of the New York Mycological Society. She is a member of the National Association of Science Writers. Her previous books include Microbia, Mycophilia, The Kitchen Ecosystem, Well Preserved, At Mesa's Edge, and Italian Family Dining. Her books have been nominated for a variety of awards, including a Colorado Book Award and James Beard Award, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Denver Post, The Wall Street Journal, Saveur, Food & Wine, and Gourmet, among others. She has lectured widely, at venues like the Missouri Botanical Gardens, the Denver Botanical Garden, and the New York Public Library.