About
A freelance writer for over 30 years, Audrey Stallsmith has specialized in garden-related nonfiction for the last 10 years. She has been writing for BobVila.com since October of 2020 and is also a mystery novelist and photographer.
Experience
Audrey is the author of the Thyme Will Tell gardening-related mystery series from WaterBrook Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House. A former master gardener with over 30 years of horticultural experience, she has been published in Woman’s World, Birds & Blooms, Writer’s Digest, and more. She has also written hundreds of gardening articles for such sites as eHow, SFGATE, and Dave’s Garden, as well as her own Thyme Will Tell site.
Winner of a second-place award in a Horticulture Magazine photography contest and occasional correspondent for the Greenville Record-Argus, Audrey also has contributed poultry articles to Grit’s Community Chickens site, Acres U.S.A., and Farming Magazine. Audrey lives on a small farm in Pennsylvania where a menagerie of pets, free-ranging poultry, and occasionally escaped livestock make horticulture a challenge—but a highly enjoyable one!
Education
Audrey graduated cum laude from Houghton College with a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing and a minor in studio art. She also completed the Pennsylvania master gardener program.
