Author Talks Presents: Siri Carpenter & Ferris Jabr
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Join Johns Hopkins MA in Science Writing program lecturer Marianne Amoss for a discussion and Q&A with Siri Carpenter and Ferris Jabr on the new anthology, The Best Science Stories and How They Work – A Collection with Commentary.
Siri Carpenter is an award-winning science journalist and co-founder, executive director, and editor-in-chief of The Open Notebook, a nonprofit organization that provides training, mentoring, and community support for journalists who cover science. She is also editor of The Craft of Science Writing, the second edition of which was published in November 2024 by the University of Chicago Press; and also of The Best Science Stories and How They Work (July 2026, also from the University of Chicago Press)
Carpenter serves on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Standing Committee on Advancing Science Communication. Additionally, she is a longtime member of the National Association of Science Writers.
Ferris Jabr is the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Earth and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. Becoming Earth won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Oregon Book Award.
Jabr has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, National Geographic, and Scientific American. He has received fellowships from Yale, MIT, and UC Berkeley, as well as grants from the Pulitzer Center and the Whiting Foundation. His work has been anthologized in four editions of The Best American Science and Nature Writing series.
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