Rosemary Mosco

Rosemary is an author, illustrator, and speaker whose work connects people with the natural world.

She creates acclaimed science books for kids and adults, including the national bestseller A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching, which was featured on Real Housewives of NYC. She’s written and drawn for The New York Times, Audubon, the PBS Kids show Elinor Wonders Why, and more, and makes a regular comic strip in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Living Bird magazine. Her nature comic Bird and Moon won the National Cartoonists Society’s award for Best Online Short Form Comic and was the subject of an award-winning museum exhibit. Her climate change comics were exhibited at AAAS headquarters and the Peabody Essex Museum. She gives engaging talks and workshops at events all over North America.

Rosemary is a graduate of the Field Naturalist Program. She judged a bird tattoo contest (three times!) and co-founded an event celebrating invertebrate butts.

Her favorite glacial landform is the esker.