Journalist covering science, health and the environment.

Staff writer at the Atlantic.

Author of The Light Eaters, a plant book, out with Harper Books May 7, 2024.

Finalist for the 2019 Livingston Award.

Winner of the 2017 National Association of Science Writers' science reporting award

Into chemicals, climate, cool plants. Do say hello.

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