The Net Keeper
A Fable About How the Fungi Came to Be
By Diane Brooks Pleninger
Artwork by Yuming Wang
30 pages with artwork on every page

Diane Pleninger grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and attended Wellesley College and Arizona State University, where she majored in English. She is retired from a forty-year career as a CPA. Her interest in fungi began in 1997, nurtured by the late Phyllis Kempton of Anchorage, Alaska, an amateur mycologist often called "the gray lady" of Alaskan mycology and a protege of Dr. Alexander Smith. Diane's stories for children have been published and anthologized by Cricket magazine. She has written award-winning essays for The Economist and the Templeton Foundation, drawing on her interest in mycology

Yuming Wang was born in Nanjing, China, and raised in Chiba, Japan. She is fascinated with nature and aspires to bridge science and the public using various visual media. As a big fan of anime and manga, she loves to draw fictional characters and imaginary landscapes as well. Yuming is currently an undergraduate student studying biology and art at Mount Holyoke College. 

Medicine for Minds & Hearts:
a MycoAnthology of poems inspired by a love of mushrooms
Art Goodtimes and Wendy Videlock, Editors
86 pages


Art Goodtimes
Art Goodtimes of Norwood co-directs the Telluride Institute's Talking Gourds poetry project and is Poetry Editor for FUNGI. Art is a dedicated student of Dolores LaChapelle and her Way of the Mountain philosophy. He has been poetin-residence of the Telluride Mushroom Festival for 40 years, is a former newspaper editor, a retired Green Party County Commissioner, and a tireless advocate of all things mushrooms and all things poetry. His books are available where books are sold.

Wendy Videlock
Wendy Videlock writes, paints, and teaches from the foot of Thunder Mountain in agricultural Palisade, Colorado. Her poems, essays, and reviews appear widely, most notably in Poetry, The New York Times, O Magazine, and Best American Poetry. Her award-winning poems have received critical acclaim, her books are available where books are sold and her paintings are featured in galleries across the Western Slope.

MycoEpithalamia:
Mushroom Wedding Poems
Art Goodtimes and Britt A. Bunyard, Editors
128 pages


Art Goodtimes
Art co-directs the Telluride Institute's Talking Gourds poetry project (talkinggourds.weebly.com), is Poetry Editor for Fungi, and co-hosts the Sage Green Journal on-line lit zine (sagegreenjournal.org). His latest poetry books are As If the World Really Mattered (La Alameda Press, Albuquerque, 2007) and Looking South to Lone Cone (Western Eye Press, Sedona, 2013). He has been a poet-in-residence of the Telluride Mushroom Festival for 36 years, and was named Colorado's Western Slope Poet Laureate from 2011-13. A former newspaper editor and retiring Green Party county commissioner, Art writes weekly columns for a local paper and performs his poetry widely in the Azlán bioregion.

Britt A. Bunyard
Britt Bunyard is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal Fungi. Britt has worked academically (and played very amateurishly) as a mycologist his entire career, writing scientifically for many research journals, popular science magazines, and books, most recently Mushrooms and Macrofungi of Ohio and Midwestern States (2012) by the Ohio State University Press. He has served as an editor for mycological and entomological research journals, and mushroom guide books. A popular evangelizer on all things fungal, Britt has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered, National Geographic Magazine, PBS's NOVA television program, and in 2016 was made Executive Director of the Telluride Mushroom Festival.

Foraging with Jeeves & Other Offbeat Mycological Excursions
Lawrence Millman
2023, 85 pages

This book defies any known genre, just as fungi often tend to defy our attempts to identify them. Think science (the Salem witchcraft fungus) followed by satire (a fungal Faust) followed by an account of what sort of fungi one might find in Antarctica. An element of humor pervades the book’s pages, as indicated by a remark one of its characters, the butler Jeeves, makes to his master: “Wit and mycology go together, sir.”

About the author: Mycologist-author-Arctic explorer Lawrence Millman has written 19 books, including such titles as Last Places, A Kayak Full of Ghosts, Our Like Will Not Be There Again, Lost in the Arctic, At the End of the World, Fascinating Fungi of New England, Fungipedia, and The Last Speaker of Bear. In addition to having a fungus named after him (Inonotus millmanii), he and fellow mycologist Bill Neill discovered a species, Echinodontium ballouii, that had been presumed extinct since 1909. He had done mycological work all over the world as well as in his own backyard of Cambridge, Massachusetts.