Aurelia C. Scott lives in Portland, Maine with her husband Bob Krug, two three bypass pruners, and a Cape Cod weeder. She gardens within sight of water, seagulls, and the occasional heron. Her essays, profiles, travel pieces, and feature articles appear in Cottage Living, Garden Design, Fine Gardening, Down East, and the New York Times among other publications. And as Contributing Editor for AudioFile Magazine, she gets to listen to so many audiobooks that her ears turn numb. She is also able to interview audiobook narrators, and such varied authors as John Lithgow and Jodi Picoult. As Historical Editor for Garden Compass Magazine, she wrote profiles of the luminaries of yesteryear's plant world.

Aurelia is the winner of a number of writing awards, including the Writer's Digest Grand Prize and the Garden Writers Association Gold Award for Best Book Writing. (She also won her school history and science prizes in ninth grade, an accomplishment that went immediately to her head.)

Aurelia speaks frequently on writing and gardening. Click here if you wish to arrange for Aurelia to speak to your book group or club, or wish to be put on her mailing list. Visit Aurelia on Facebook.

Late season asters and rose hips.

She also works as a Master Gardener. Her current MG activity is helping to create a pesticide-free, pollution-absorbing landscape beside Portland's Back Cove. This involves laying down lots of cardboard mulch and doing an astonishing amount of hand-weeding.

The unanticipated benefit of gardening on a public walking trail is that you are thanked by passersby! Plus, it satisfies one's latent exhibitionism.

NEWS FLASH! The gardens have won the Gold Leaf Award for "Outstanding Landscape Beautification Activities” from the International Society of Arboriculture.

A path worth taking.

Aurelia serves as President Emeritus
of the Board of Portland Trails, a local urban land trust.