Cindy Crosby is the author, compiler, or contributor to more than 20 books. She teaches and speaks on the tallgrass prairie, and is a steward supervisor for the Schulenberg Prairie at The Morton Arboretum and a steward at Nachusa Grasslands. Her new book is “The Tallgrass Prairie: An Introduction” (Northwestern University Press). Cindy blogs weekly at Tuesdays in the Tallgrass at WordPress. When she’s not hiking on the prairie, she is in the garden, kayaking, or out chasing dragonflies.