Gail Damerow

Gail Damerow (born February 29, 1944) is an American author and poultry expert. Born in Colorado, she spent her adult life in various states, including Alaska, California, and finally Tennessee, where Damerow settled down on a farm with her husband in 1982. She has spent much of her time raising farm animals and writing pieces about agriculture, farming, and similar topics in magazines and full-length books she has published from the 1970s through the 2020s.

Early life and education Damerow was born on February 29, 1944, in Denver, Colorado. She graduated cum laude from the University of Arizona with a degree in mathematics.

As an author, Damerow has written books on animal husbandry, gardening, general agriculture, and on the sale of consumer products. She has also worked as a teacher for classes on writing and how to be an author at the Tennessee Technological University. She has worked as a marketing consultant, while contributing several hundred articles to various magazines. Additionally, she is the author of a monthly column within the magazine Dairy Goat Journal, along with being the producer of food recipes that she sells to various product manufacturers. Described by Bonnie Powell of Grist as "poultry's Cesar Millan", Powell noted that Damerow's most well-known and successful work was Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, which is "the primer for all things chicken".

Awards and honors Damerow's book Ice Cream! The Whole Scoop was nominated for the 1992 James Beard Award for best Baking & Desserts book. It was described by The New York Times as the authoritative book on ice cream.