Susan S.H. Littlefield grew up during summers at her grandmother’s house in Barnstable. After graduating from Harvard, she worked with the garden editor at House & Garden magazine and got a degree in landscape design. She is the author of several garden books, including Visions of Paradise. She has lived in Florida, California and Argentina, and currently lives in New York City; but she, her husband, and their three children all consider Cummaquid their home base. She enjoys cooking, gardening, writing and painting with watercolors – much as her great-grandmother did.