Award-winning and best-selling nature writer Mary Taylor Young spent her childhood summers
roaming the Colorado Rockies from her grandparents' cabin in Estes Park. "We awoke to mule deer peering in the windows and
hummingbirds buzzing the feeders," she remembers.
Her love of wild things and the outdoors led to a degree in Zoology from Colorado State
University and a life devoted to nature and the environment.
Mary's 13 books range from Land of Grass and Sky: A Naturalist's Prairie Journey
to On the Trail of Colorado Critters: Wildlife Watching for Kids. Her latest book, The Guide to Colorado Reptiles
and Amphibians, arrives in May 2011.
Mary's "Words On Birds" column appeared in the Rocky Mountain News of Denver for 16
years. She has published hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles and written extensively for the US Fish and Wildlife
Service, the Colorado Division of Wildlife and other agencies and NGOs.
Mary has taught writing for more than 20 years, at Rocky Mountain National
Park and many other venues. She is an accomplished field naturalist and wilderness guide as well as an active Artist-in-Residence
and Naturalist-in-Residence in K-12 schools throughout Colorado.
Mary lives in Castle Rock, Colorado with her husband, daughter, two dogs and many wild
neighbors (the kind that fly or run around on 4 legs).
