ABOUT

Merry Bradshaw (Author)

Merry Bradshaw is a writer and former educator. She was a curriculum writer for National Geographic’s Explorer Magazines. Merry’s poetry has been featured in Poetry Friday’s anthologies, Celebrations and Great Morning. She also received second place in the National Federation of Press Women’s Communications Contest for Writing for the Web. Her writing has also been featured in Harvard’s Graduate School of Education Newsletter. H is for Hummingbirds is her first published book.

Merry enjoys writing children’s stories, poetry, memoir and creative non-fiction. She is never surprised when ideas or an inspiration pops up. Once she wrote an entire children’s story on napkins while on a two-hour flight. A quiet walk in the woods or enjoying nature around her cabin in Utah provides some of the best moments for thinking and writing.

Merry is married and mother of two. She has lived throughout the west and currently resides in southern Nevada with her husband. It is not unusual to find her clicking away on the computer, a good cup of tea nearby and her tuxedo cat at her feet.

David Boyarski (Photographer)

David Boyarski is a self-taught nature photographer who only got serious about photography when he retired in 2011. His favorite subjects are hummingbirds and humpback whales, two subjects he is not likely to photograph together. Dave's interest in hummingbirds began while he was still living in the foothills of Colorado, an area visited by four different species of hummingbirds. Since moving to southern Nevada, that interest has expanded into providing support for hummingbird nesting and migration studies.

He and his wife frequently travel to Hawaii and Alaska to view humpback whales and to Ecuador to view hummingbirds. They also enjoy traveling to other locations abundant with wildlife and in 2017 went on a 24-day safari to Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa during which he captured images of 139 species of birds and 53 animals. His images can viewed on his Flickr page .