Kay Yatskievych's love of wildflowers began when she was growing up on a Johnson County, Indiana farm. Since 1990, she has been employed by the Missouri Botanical Garden as coeditor of a 9-volume series, the Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana, while continuing to do photography and research in her spare time for Field Guide to Indiana Wildflowers. Kay is a founding member of both the Indiana Native Plant and Wildflower Society and the Brown County Spring Wildflower Count. She has led dozens of wildflower walks, given numerous slide shows about plants, and has had many of her photographs published in books, magazines, posters, and newspapers.