Nancy Arbuthnot is a writer, artist, teacher and translator whose art has been displayed in galleries throughout the Washington, DC area and in Agua Prieta, Mexico. Her books include Postcards from the Border: Meditations in Ink and Watercolor; Spirit Hovering: Poems; Guiding Lights: United States Naval Academy Monuments and Memorials; and Waves Beyond Waves, translations of the Vietnamese poems of Le Pham Le. She served as the National Park Service Artist-in-Residence at Catoctin Mountain Park in Thurmont, Maryland in 2020 and 2021.