I’m a science writer, poet, and essayist living by the sea in Maine. I got into science writing for the same reasons I got into poetry: because this life astonishes me, and I want to tell about it; and because this life is rich, complicated, and hard, and talking about it helps. (And, of course, because writing is magic.) I write mostly about health and medicine, disability and illness, biology, animal behavior, pop culture, and monsters. Sometimes I teach classes, which makes me really, really, really happy. My work has appeared in outlets including The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Popular Mechanics, Bright Wall/Dark Room, and Rogue Agent, on matchboxes and tarot cards, and in anthologies about inanimate objects and the occult. I like moss and rain and bats and glitter and long walks at night.

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