I'm a Colorado-based science journalist, contributing editor at Scientific American, and senior contributor at Undark. My articles have also appeared in places like the New York Times, Wired, Popular Science, the Washington Post, Outside, and others. I am the author of the books Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers. My forthcoming book is called Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons, out 2/6/2024 and available for pre-order. A writing portfolio lives here, and my articles have won the American Geophysical Union's David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Writing (2021) and the American Astronomical Society Solar Physics Division's Popular Media Award (2019, 2020).
In previous lives, I was an associate editor at Astronomy and a public education officer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. When I'm not making sentences or recording our conversations, I enjoy reading books I don't write, running weirdly long distances in the wilderness, teaching my dogs English, and trying to become a better navigator.
In previous lives, I was an associate editor at Astronomy and a public education officer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. When I'm not making sentences or recording our conversations, I enjoy reading books I don't write, running weirdly long distances in the wilderness, teaching my dogs English, and trying to become a better navigator.