Bio

My job description looks something like this:

Me with a Guira cuckoo on my shoulder

Talk to some of the most brilliant and innovative scientists in the world.  Read their research, and talk to them again.  Ask lots of questions.  Read more wacky and weird research.  Learn about quirky critters (6-foot birds with hatchet-like beaks! Algae that control the weather!).  Realize that world is way more complicated than you will ever understand.  Try to put all of this awesomeness into words. Finally, try to convince your grandmother that being a science writer doesn’t mean you write VCR manuals and that, in fact, you can’t help her set up her new TV.

I have written for the Washington Post, Scientific American Mind, Earth Magazine, ScienceNOW, Chemical and Engineering News, and the Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine. 

I have an MPH in epidemiology from the University of Michigan, and an MA in Science Writing from Johns Hopkins University.