Marlene A. Condon

[from author's website]
Marlene A. Condon is a nature writer and photographer with a passion for creating wildlife habitat around homes. Chosen as a field editor for Birds & Blooms when the magazine debuted in 1995, she contributed articles and photos to this popular publication for many years. Marlene has been published in numerous newspapers and magazines and is the author of The Nature-friendly Garden (Stackpole Books). Her yard has been certified as a backyard wildlife habitat by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and the National Wildlife Federation. It has been showcased on public television stations WVPT in Harrisonburg and WCVE in Richmond, Virginia. She gave slide presentations from spring through fall in Shenandoah National Park for 12 years.

Marlene has a degree in physics. Her contributions to the scientific study of quasars and pulsars have been published in The Astrophysical Journal and The Astronomical Journal.