Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1940s
• Where—Brooklyn, New York, USA
• Education—B.A., Saint John's University
• Awards—See below
• Currently—lives in East Quogue, New York
Maria Daddino is the multiple award-winning author of Maria’s Duck Tales: Wildlife Stories From my Garden, a heartwarming and poignant memoir about a very extraordinary time in her life and the special creatures who became her “wild-friends.”
The author grew up in the 1940’s in Brooklyn, New York, attended Saint John’s University and now lives in a charming little hamlet on the magnificent East End of Long Island. Deer, turkeys, pheasants, egrets, herons, squirrels, opossums and glorious wild birds, brilliant in their feathered plumage, call her native wildlife garden home. Her extensive native and natural garden, certified as a wildlife habitat by the National Wildlife Federation and as a monarch waystation by Monarch Watch, has been on display in several East End garden tours. She also works closely with local wildlife organizations and regularly holds private tours with them in her garden to discuss ways of providing wildlife habitat in beautiful garden settings.
Maria writes a weekly community column, “From Fourth Neck,” for the Western Edition of The Southampton Press. Her essays have appeared in The Press Box in both the Eastern and Western Editions of The Southampton Press, as well as in The Press of Manorville and Moriches. Her wildlife stories have also appeared in the South Shore Monthly, the Great South Bay Magazine and In the Eyes of the Wild: An Anthology of Wildlife Poetry and Short Stories.
Maria’s wildlife garden has been featured in all editions of The Southampton Press. She has appeared on LTV’s The Writer’s Dream, as well as on The Authors Show. Maria has also spoken of the joys of her wildlife garden on several radio shows, most recently, The Backyard Network on KRAE, Cheyenne, Wy.
Maria lives in East Quogue with her collie Christie, her parrot Pablo and all of her “wild-friends." (From the author.)
Awards
IndieReader Discovery Awards Winner (Environment)
National Indie Excellence Book Awards Winner (Nature)
Global eBook Awards Winner (Animals/ Pets)
Readers Favorite Award ~ Silver (Animals)
New York Book Festival Runner-Up (eBooks)
Green Book Festival Runner-Up (Animals)
International Book Awards Finalist (Animals/Pets: General)
International Book Awards Finalist (E-Book Autobiography/Biography/Memoirs)
Los Angeles Book Festival First Honorable Mention (Non-Fiction)
San Francisco Book Festival First Honorable Mention (Non-Fiction)
Beach Book Festival Honorable Mention (Non-Fiction)
Readers Favorite Award Finalist (Humor)
Readers Favorite Award (General Non-Fiction)
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