Ferns: Lessons in Survival from Earth's Most Adaptable Plants - Hardcover

Fay-Wei Li grew up in Taiwan, a subtropical fern paradise, and studied for his Ph.D. at Duke University, where he and his advisor, Kathleen Pryer, named a new fern genus Gaga after Lady Gaga. In 2017, Fay-Wei joined Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell University as a faculty member. His fern research has featured in the New York Times, the Economist, and Rolling Stone.

Ben Goulet-Scott, Ph.D. and Jacob S. Suissa, Ph.D., are the co-founders and directors of Let's Botanize, an educational non-profit that promotes the hobby of botanizing by sharing plant stories. Their motto is: a care for plants is a care for the planet. Goulet-Scott and Suissa earned their doctorate degrees in evolutionary biology at Harvard University. Goulet-Scott currently designs and manages higher education programming at Harvard Forest, the ecology-focused research station of Harvard University in Massachusetts. Suissa is currently an Assistant Professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Find them teaching at in-person school events, presenting hands-on seminars and lectures, and on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube @letsbotanize.