Anne Biklé is a biologist, science writer, and public speaker. She explores connections between the health of the land and people. Anne co-authored The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health with her husband, David Montgomery. The second book of the Dirt Trilogy, it tells the story of humanity’s tangled relationship with the microbial world in agriculture and medicine. Anne has a bad case of plant lust and uses soil to coax plants into rambunctious growth or nurse them back from the edge of death. Her gardening practices have been featured in independent and documentary films and her work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, and radio.