Born and raised on the mean city beaches of Rogers Park, Lily Mueller-Marcus recently fled Chicago’s bitch slap of a winter for the continuous, mind-warping sunshine of Los Angeles where she works as a writer and landscape designer. Her current endeavors include: editing her first novel, Porkbelly; drawing gardens by hand; launching a music discovery website, Showshow.fm; watching hummingbirds frolic in the palm trees surrounding her balcony; and occasionally epoxying plants to walls in a flagrant attempt at botanic street art.