Henri Bensussen writes on themes of inter-personal/inter-species relationships, aging, and the comic aspects of the human condition from the viewpoint of a birder, biologist, and gardener. She earned a B.A. in Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and worked for 18 years at Stanford UP before moving to Fort Bragg, CA, in 1999, where she served on the board of the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference. She is a member of the WNBA San Francisco. Currently, a book-length memoir is her focus, and she continues to publish poetry and creative non-fiction.