Hazel White grew up on farms in the southwest of England. After finishing undergraduate degrees in philosophy and literature at Warwick University, she studied crop agriculture at Bridgwater College Center for Land Based Studies, and then, through University of California, Berkeley, Extension, landscape architecture. She's the author of eleven gardening books, published by Sunset Books and Chronicle Books, and for several years wrote a monthly column, "Living in the Landscape," published by the San Francisco Chronicle. White graduated from the MFA Writing program at California College of the Arts in 2005. Her poetry has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Tarpaulin Sky (online), and VERSE. A chapbook, Richter 14, was published in 2010 by Deconstructed Artichoke Press. She lives in San Francisco.