 Lucie, the youngest of five children, was born in
Guilford, England to Swiss parents who subsequently
migrated to the United States. As a child, she spent
the summer months with her relatives in Switzerland,
the original inspiration for her culinary and travel
writing. Lucie also lived in Berlin for six years,
sparking her lifelong passion for international and
public affairs.
Nature and the environment have also profoundly influenced Lucie. In 2005, she teamed up with her husband, horticulturist Edmund Snodgrass, to write Green Roof Plants: a Resource and Planting Guide (Timber Press 2006). One reviewer described the book—featured on the Washington Post’s 2006 list of best garden books—as “the best overview of green roofs and green roof plantings…in one volume.” Lucie graduated from Vassar College and earned a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University. While at Johns Hopkins University working on her Master’s in Writing, Lucie won a national writing award for a nonfiction essay about her maternal grandmother, published in the Mid-American Review. She lives and works on a 135-acre farm in northeastern Maryland, which she shares with her husband and a passel of animals, including her beloved dog, Huckleberry. When she’s not writing or teaching English at her local community college, Lucie tends her enormous garden, frequently a jumping off point for her writing. |
