Lucie L. Snodgrass

Lucie Lehmann Snodgrass is an award winning writer born in 1958 to Swiss parents living in Guilford, England. She grew up between the United States and Europe and earned advanced degrees from Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University. She has combined a career in public policy at the federal and local levels with writing on a wide range of subjects, from gardening and horticulture to agriculture, travel,and food. Her writing has appeared in national newspapers and periodicals from "The Washington Post," "Fine Gardening" and "The Mid-American Review" to "Vegetarian Times," where she was a contributing editor and columnist. She is the co-author with her husband Edmund of "Green Roof Plants: A Resource and Planting Guide"(Timber 2006) and is the author of "Dishing Up Maryland: 150 Recipes from the Alleghenies to the Chesapeake Bay" (Storey 2010). She lives on a farm in northeastern Maryland.