Dr. Elizabeth Bernays is a biologist turned writer. After growing up in Australia, she received her Ph.D. at the University of London, England, and had a career as an academic entomologist (most recently as a professor in UC Berkeley and then University of Arizona) before obtaining an MFA at the University of Arizona where she is currently a Regents' Professor Emerita. Bernays has published over two hundred scientific papers and books and several popular biology articles, as well as children's books. She has published poems and essays in a variety of literary journals.

• 1. Differential Toxicity of Plant Allelochemicals to Insects: Roles of Enzymtic Detoxication Systems 2. Macroevolutionary Aspects of Insect-Plant Interactions 3. Measuring Food Utilisation in Plant Feeding Insects - Toward a Metabolic and Dynamic Approach 4. The Influence of Plant Chemistry on Aphid-Feeding Behavior 5. How Insect Herbivores Find Suitable Host Plants: The Interplay between Random and Nonrandom Movement 6. Host Range Patterns of Hymenopteran Parasitoids of Exophytic Lepidopteran Folivores