Katrina van Grouw, author and illustrator of the top-selling books The Unfeathered Bird and Unnatural Selection, has had a colourful career navigating that no-man’s land between art and science. She holds degrees in fine art and natural history illustration, is a former curator of birds at the Natural History Museum, and a current PhD student in palaeobiology at the University of Cambridge.

Katrina has presented talks at a variety of venues across Europe and America including the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Linnaean Society of London; American Museum of Natural History, the British Birdwatching Fair, the Natural History Museum, and the Smithsonian.