Email: rebecca@rebeccaskloot.com

Rebecca Skloot, who teaches advanced science reporting in the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program, is an award-winning freelance writer, a contributing editor at Popular Science magazine, and an occasional correspondent for the NPR show, Radio Lab, and the PBS television series, Nova ScienceNOW. She writes for The New York Times Magazine, Discover, New York and others, and is a former staff editor at Popular Science, where she wrote "Mediascope," a column on the media's coverage of science. Skloot has a bachelor's degree in biological sciences and an MFA in creative nonfiction writing (with graduate coursework in bioethics and history of science on the side). She financed her education working in neurology labs, emergency rooms, and veterinary morgues. She has taught writing since 1997 and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle, where she is a judge for their yearly book awards. Her first book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, about the history and ethics of tissue research, is forthcoming from Crown. Her website is http://www.rebeccaskloot.com.