Kathryn Aalto is an American landscape historian, garden designer, university lecturer, preservation consultant, and writer. She has a M.A. in Garden History and a M.A. in Creative Nonfiction.  She also has a diploma in Garden Design from the London College of Garden Design and a B.A. in English from Berkeley.  For the past twenty-five years, her focus has been on places where nature and culture intersect: teaching the literature of nature and place, designing artful and sustainable gardens, and writing about the natural world.  She speaks widely throughout the United States and Britain.