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, Joseph can usually be found at home organic gardening, beekeeping, growing edible mushrooms, planting native plants, and either building, fixing or playing stringed instruments. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife, their two children, a house cat, two dogs, nine chickens, and fifty thousand honeybees.