Viki Cramer is a writer and ecologist who lives on Whadjuk Noongar Country in the south-west of Western Australia, home to some of the most extraordinary and diverse plant life on the planet.

She is a PhD-trained ecologist who spent the better part of two decades pondering the inner lives of plants and their relationships with each other and the soil they grow in. Viki has lived and worked in the mulga lands, brigalow belt, eucalypt woodlands and subtropical forests of Queensland, the monsoon vine forests of the Northern Territory, and the eucalypt forests and woodlands of Western Australia.

As a science writer, Viki has worked with Nature Research Partnership and Custom Media, Stem Matters, 10 Deserts Project, Bush Heritage Australia, CSIRO’s ECOS, the Society for Ecological Restoration Australasia and the Northern Australia Environmental Resources Hub. Her science journalism has been published by Ensia and Scientific American. Her non-fiction story ‘No change coming’ was selected for inclusion in the 2016 Radio National Earshot documentary Hot Summer Land. In 2021, Viki was awarded a Dahl Fellowship from Eucalypt Australia.

The Memory of Trees is her first book.