Ruth Rogers Clausen is a garden writer, editor, lecturer, and teacher, and an accomplished horticulturist. Trained in horticulture at Studley College in England, she received her MS in Botany from Kent State University, Ohio. Currently the Horticulture Editor for Country Living Gardener magazine, she was the co-author, with Nicolas Ekstrom, of Peremials for American Gardens, winner of the Quill & Trowel award in 1990. Ruth has written extensively for horticultural magazines and botanical guidebooks, including several articles for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Handbooks. A member of the Corporation for The New York Botanical Garden, she serves on the advisory committee for the School of Professional Horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden and on the education committee for the Horticultural Society of New York. As time permits, she tends to her own dreamscape in New York's Westchester County.