Emily Drury grew up in the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire and currently lives in West Peterborough, N.H.  She founded Princess Pine after completing her Masters in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She also holds degrees from the New School for Social Research and Brown University, and maintains an interdisciplinary creative practice.

For 20 years, Emily worked as the head gardener at MacDowell, an artist residency program in Peterborough, N.H. She designed, installed and maintained extensive decorative and edible gardens within the central campus; and researched, proposed and implemented projects and systems for sustainable cultivation and production and enhanced wildlife habitat across the 400 acre property. At MacDowell, Emily collaborated with Reed Hilderbrand Associates and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects on the award-winning Baldwin Library landscape. 

Emily currently teaches a plant identification class at Northeastern University. From 2011-2016, she taught courses at the Community College of Vermont in Brattleboro.

She has participated in artist residencies at Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Salmon Creek Farm, iLAND/Mt. Tremper Arts, and Centro de Artes San Augustin Etla; she was a juried member of the League of N.H. Craftsman for knitting and weaving; wrote for the artists’ zine Knitknit; and has presented collaborative work through the New Museum’s Ideas City and Mary Miss’ City as Living Laboratory.

Emily launched Princess Pine in 2020.

Carly Roland grew up in the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire and currently lives in Peterborough, N.H. She holds a Masters in Plant Taxonomy, Diversity, and Conservation from Kew Gardens and Queen Mary University, a Masters in Ecological Design from the Conway School, and a Bachelors of Science in Biology from Clemson University. 

At Kew Gardens, she researched conservation planning strategies for a set of endangered plants. This included studies at the Millennium Seed Bank to understand their germination and seed banking requirements. Starting at this time, she wrote articles for The Green Conspiracy, a company inspiring people to start home gardens in urban environments.

Following her time at Kew, Carly worked at the Naples Botanical Garden in southwest Florida. As part of the Conservation team, she collaborated with colleagues in the Caribbean towards the conservation of endangered plants native to the region. The work included propagating select species, some to be naturalized in the landscape. Her previous work also includes working in horticulture at Dumbarton Oaks Gardens, organic vegetable farming at Rosaly’s Garden, and residential gardening at Genius Loci. 

In 2021, she attended the Conway School where she collaborated on real-world residential design, town-scale design, and food systems planning projects.

Carly is a certified yoga instructor and enjoys practicing yoga, exploring the woods, and growing veggies in her free time.

Carly joined Princess Pine in late 2022. 

Sophie Maguire grew up in the woods outside of NYC and currently lives in Baltimore City. She holds a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelors of Art in Dance and Political Science from Connecticut College.

Before joining Princess Pine Sophie worked for PFS Studio (Vancouver, BC), WHY Architecture's landscape studio (NY + LA), EPICENTER (UT), Unknown Studio (MD), 10x10 (MI), and the City of Baltimore Recreation and Parks. She has helped design and realize public parks, residential gardens, mixed use developments, rural artist residencies, institutional campuses, and public art installations in the US, Canada, France, and Thailand. 

From 2018 - 2020 Sophie taught design studios and technical courses at the University of British Columbia’s School of Architecture and Landscape architecture, with a specific focus on the definition of resilience in the public imagination of desert ecologies. Currently, Sophie teaches graduate courses in the department of landscape architecture at Morgan State University.

Her performance and set design work has been presented throughout New York City and Vancouver, BC, and her writing has been published in Scapegoat Journal, Landscape | Paysages, Testing Ground Journal, and GSD Platform. 

In her spare time, Sophie maintains an art practice, takes long walks and is learning to be a metalsmith at The Baltimore Jewelry Center. 

Sophie joined Princess Pine in early 2023. She is a registered landscape architect in Maryland and Vermont.