Linda Mary Reeves
CO-EDITOR (MANAGING EDITOR), PRINCIPAL ILLUSTRATOR
Linda Mary Reeves is the Co-Editor and Principal Illustrator for the Bolack San Juan Basin Flora Project. She functions as the managing editor responsible for author and illustrator coordination, editing of manuscripts, other documents and agreements, publicity and production of graphics and botanical line drawings for the project. She also is a botanist on the project who will be contributing treatments of the Orchidaceae (Orchid Family), Rubiaceae (Coffee Family), Martyniaceae (Devil's Claw Family), Zygophyllaceae (Tree-of-Life or Caltrop Family) and other tropically based plant families. She has traveled and collected plants in the tropical Western Hemisphere, including Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Guatemala.
Linda received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Biology at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, working under Calloway Dodson and Thomas Pliske. Linda trained in Tropical Botany taught by Harvard University and the University of Miami at Fairchild Tropical Gardens. She worked for five years on a Ph.D. in Systematic Botany under Don Pinkava at Arizona State University in Tempe. She is the former President of the Orchid Society of Arizona. She has published papers on orchids of Minnesota, including the rarest orchid in the United States, Malaxis paludosa, as well as orchids of the southwestern United States. She is a member of the American Orchid Society, the North American Native Orchid Alliance, The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators and the Hunt Museum for Botanical Documentation. She is currently working on the Orchidaceae treatment for the new Vascular Flora of Arizona.
She has taught biological science at the University of Miami, Miami-Dade Community College, Scottsdale Community College, Maricopa Tech Community College, University of Minnesota, Navajo Community College (now Dine' College) where she was the Chair of Mathematics/Natural Science/Computer Science and The New York Botanical Garden where she taught Botany and acted as co-director of Children's Education. As an adjunct instructor at San Juan College, she taught Microbiology, Botany, Tropical Biology, General Biology, Systematic Botany, Environmental Conservation, Botany, Orchid Biology and Botanical Illustration. Linda was the recipient of an Outstanding Teaching Award and Outstanding Chairperson Award at Navajo Community College. She also won the President's Mission Award at San Juan College.
Linda started her botanical art career with illustrations of ferns for her husband Tim, while working and taking botanical illustration classes at the New York Botanical Garden. The next year she met Lynn Margulis while working as the Administrator of the Planetary Biology Internship Program at Boston University and became an illustrator for Lynn and Karlene Swartz' book, Five Kingdoms. This book is now in its fifth edition as well as a coloring book for children and a CD. While working at Boston University, Linda took botanical illustration classes at Harvard University. Later work included black and white illustrations of sharks, rays and bats.
At San Juan College she worked with Ken Heil illustrating and editing five threatened and endangered plant identification books for Bureau of Land Management and a book, Four Corners Invasive and Poisonous Plant Field Guide for San Juan College and Bureau of Land Management. One of the illustrations, Carduus nutans, was nominated for the Hunt Museum for Botanical Documentation's exhibit of outstanding botanical illustration. Other projects included line drawings of new orchid (Dressleria= Catasetum) species for the Flora of Peru. Linda has had two one-person exhibits recently of invasive plant line drawings and environmental watercolors.
Linda enjoys hiking, gardening, collecting and growing orchids, caudiciform trees and bromeliads, collecting textiles, reading science fiction and raising cats. She is co-owner, with her husband, Tim, of Reeves Bioconsultants, a biological survey and botanical design/illustration company.
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