Enid Baxter Ryce is an author and artist who writes about natural intelligence — cultivating imagination through wonder and the living world, and surfacing the stories buried in families, archives, and ecologies. She illustrates her own books and makes her paints from the plants in her garden. Her forthcoming book, Cultivating Natural Intelligence (Rowman & Littlefield / Bloomsbury, 2027), is a guide for parents on raising curious, capable children through play and imagination in the age of screens. She is Professor of Cinematic Arts and Technology at CSU Monterey Bay. A descendant of three Salem witches, she comes from a long family history of natural magic practice.