Gail Garber was introduced to quilt making 30 years ago and immediately fell in love with this textile art form.   She began designed her own quilts soon afterward, and began publishing in magazines as well as creating a line of quilting patterns by the late 1980s.   Today, her work is internationally recognized and she is highly regarded for her design workshops and entertaining lectures.   Her third book, Flying Colors, was published in 2010 by C&T Publications of California.  In this book, she has re-designed the free-form flying goose that has become her signature mark on her quilts.  The book introduces 14 different alternate designs to fill the flowing curved shapes that form her unique style as well a the brilliant use of color, strongly influenced by her 37 years in New Mexico.

In her other life, Garber is the Executive Director for Hawks Aloft, a New Mexico conservation organization, founded by Gail and others in February 1994.  The group conducts education and research programs to conserve indigenous wild birds through avian research, conservation education and cooperation with others to monitor and protect raptors and other neotropical migratory birds.  Gail may be found working with schools and various interest groups in the community, promoting raptor and conservation awareness, flying in a small aircraft locating nests of large raptors and eagles, or conducting surveys on foot in remote, back-country areas of New Mexico. Several non-releasable, permanently injured education raptors are housed in outdoor flight cages at her Albuquerque home.