Dominique Browning writes a monthly column called Personal Nature for the Environmental Defense Fund website. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review and also writes for O, Body + Soul, Wired, and Travel & Leisure, among other publications. Before House & Garden she worked at The Edison Project, Mirabella, Newsweek, Texas Monthly, and Esquire. She is the author of Around the House and In the Garden, and Paths of Desire: The Passions of a Suburban Gardener. She is the mother of two sons; her new house and garden are on the coast of Rhode Island.