Gail Harland works as a paediatric allergy dietitian at The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. She has been writing articles and books on gardening since 1993 and earned the Royal Horticultural Society's Diploma in Horticulture in 1999. Her books include The Tomato Book (Dorling Kindersley Ltd, 2009), written with food writer Sofia Larrinua-Craxton, and Snowdrop and Peony (Reaktion Books, 2024), which explore those plants in art, poetry and other aspects of human culture. She give talks on favourite plants and other aspects of horticulture to gardening groups around the U.K. and lives in Norfolk.