Joseph Hatch is the art director for Tilbury House Publishers. He holds a degree in Graphic Design and Illustration from Madison College in Madison, Wisconsin. An illustrator, abstract painter, and certified Michigan master naturalist, when not designing books, Joseph can be found organic gardening, beekeeping, growing edible mushrooms, planting native plants, and building, fixing or playing stringed musical instruments. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife, their two children, a house cat, two dogs, and thirteen chickens.