Teri Dunn Chace

Teri Dunn Chace

Chace attended Bard College where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Literature. She also attended The State University of New York at Oneonta.

Teri Dunn Chace is best known as a speaker, editor, and author who explores the intersection of community, plants, food, and landscapes in her work. Over her career, she has edited and authored more than 35 books that have won many prestigious awards.

Besides her books, Chace is a contributor to nature and consumer gardening publications. For more than a decade, she has contributed to Horticulture Magazine, where she produced award-winning features on botanical trends, plant profiles, and water gardening and rose to Associate Editor.

She has also written for Birds & Blooms, and Backyard Living, and was a columnist for the newsletter for Bottom Line Personal, where she focused on nature and garden topics.

As a project manager and editor, Teri Dunn Chace has been influential in shaping gardening and natural history titles. She is credited with editing works such as Garden Allies and Essential Perennials in addition to works on pollinators, lakes, hiking, and beginner topics in gardening.

Chase is also a highly sought-after consultant and public speaker. Her essays and talks usually include personal experiences with landscapes, flowers, seedheads, rural life, and pie, resulting in meaningful connections across community, plants, and food.

As a speaker, editor, and author, she has become known for her passion for bringing forth insights, inspiring curiosity, and a deep respect for the natural world.

In 2012, Teri Dunn Chace published the work The Anxious Gardener’s Book of Answers, in which she puts forth the 100 most common mistakes in gardening, as she also gives tips on how to prevent them.

Teri deals with every type of gardening disaster, from things to do with techniques and tools, plants, and general maintenance and care. It is a work that has tips on many different topics that a gardener can dip in and out of to find answers from the author's years of experience as a gardener.

Seeing Flowers is a work in which Teri Dunn Chace looks at the details of common flowers such as yellow daffodils, blue irises, and red roses.

Using a new process, she showcases the details of flowers many people have never seen, from the secret recesses of nectar tubes, the subtle shading on a petal, to the structure of pistils and stamens.

Through highlighting these characteristics, she shows the differences between 28 of the most common flowers. She also offers insights into the natural history of flowers.

In her 2015 work, Seeing Seeds, Teri Dunn Chace shows how there is more to a seed than the plant it will one day become.

She includes fascinating stories that explain the names and history of the seeds, even as she explains to her audience how seeds fit into their environment, why they look the way they do, and how they are dispersed and formed.

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