Andrew L. Hipp is the director of the herbarium and senior scientist in plant systematics at the Morton Arboretum as well as a lecturer at the University of Chicago. Hipp's creative work has appeared in Arnoldia, Scientific American, International Oaks: The Journal of the International Oak Society, Places Journal, and his natural history blog, A Botanist's Field Notes. He is the author of Field Guide to Wisconsin Sedges and sixteen children's books on a variety of natural history topics.