Haley Gladitsch is the Curator of Algae at the Natural History Museum, London. She has also been a gardener, a farm worker, a hardware store employee, an environmental educator, a field technician, and a botanical conservation researcher. Haley holds a BS in Environmental Biology from SUNY-ESF and an MSc in Plant Taxonomy and Biodiversity from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. She is interested in the stories living in nature and preserved in herbarium cabinets (or the other way around). She writes poetry and prose.