Draft:Britt Bunyard

Britt Bunyard
Britt Bunyard (born August 5, 1966) is an American mycologist, author, and the Editor-in-Chief of FUNGI Magazine. He is known for his contributions to the field of mycology and his efforts in public education about fungi. He has authored several books and has been a figure in both scientific and popular media.

Early life and education
He earned an MS degree in Plant Biochemistry from Clemson University in 1991, focusing on endophytic fungi and phytohormones. He completed his Ph.D. in Plant Pathology at Penn State University in 1995, researching the evolution of macrofungi under Dr. Daniel J. Royse. Following graduation, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the USDA-ARS at Ft. Detrick, Maryland.

Career
As an editor he served as Editor-in-Chief of the North American Mycological Association’s journal McIlvainea, and as a subject editor for the Entomological Society of America’s journal Annals of the Entomological Society of America, and the Mycological Society of America's journal Mycologia. He founded the mycology journal Fungi in 2008, and has served as Editor-in-Chief until today. Bunyard has published many academic and popular science papers and has been featured on the NPR’s All Things Considered, and Wisconsin Foodie television programs; and interviewed or quoted in Discover Magazine, The Atlantic, Vox, Vogue, Saveur. Since 2014, he has served as Executive Director of the Telluride Mushroom Festival, the largest wild mushroom festival in North America.

Books

 * The Little Book of Fungi (Little Books of Nature) (2024), Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691259888
 * The Lives of Fungi: A Natural History of Our Planet's Decomposers (The Lives of the Natural World, 2) (2024), Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691259888
 * The Beginner’s Guide to Mushrooms (2021), Britt Bunyard and Tavis Lynch, Quarry Books, ISBN 9781631599118
 * Amanitas of North America (2020), Britt Bunyard and Jay Justice, The Fungi Press ISBN 9780578675725

Awards
In 2021 he was awarded the Gary Lincoff Award “For Contributions to Amateur Mycology,” by the North American Mycological Association—NAMA’s most prestigious honor for American mycologists.