Nina Kozial has been an adjunct faculty member at the Chicago Botanic Garden for 24 years, contributing to the CBG website, updating plant profiles and for the past years writing Smart Gardener blogs.
Kozial has also been an instructor at the Mortem Arboretum for 24 years, a frequent presenter at the Illinois State Master Gardeners' Conference, the Perennial Plant Association and other organizations.
Kozial writes for the Illinois Landscape Contractors' magazine and has provided continuing education classes at their annual conference for five years.
She is a freelance garden writer published in numerous magazines, including "Aquascape Lifestyles."