Molly Williams is the author of Killer Plants: Growing and Caring for Flytraps, Pitcher Plants and Other Deadly Flora (Running Press), How to Speak Flower (RP Kids), and Taming the Potted Beast: The Strange and Sensational History of the Not-so-Humble Houseplant (Andrews McMeel). She writes regularly for Apartment Therapy 's gardening and horticulture section and other lifestyle magazines. She grew up on a flower farm and is now a professor of writing in New England. Michelle Carlos is a Filipino illustrator based in Germany. Her art is largely informed by her dreams, childhood memories, and life abroad. When not exploring, she is constantly creating things while singing her heart out and drinking lots of tea.