A native Floridian and Navy junior, Gardner McFall is the author of two books of poems, The Pilot’s Daughter and Russian Tortoise and two children’s books, Jonathan’s Cloud and Naming the Animals. She is also the author of Amelia: The Libretto, for the opera Amelia, which premiered at Seattle Opera in May 2010 with music by Daron Hagen and story by Stephen Wadsworth. She is the editor of May Swenson’s prose miscellany, Made with Words, and wrote the introduction and notes for a Barnes & Nobles Classics edition of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows.
