Author: Ferris Jabr
Bio: Ferris Jabr is the author of *Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life* and a contributing writer for *The New York Times Magazine* and *Scientific American.* He has also written for *The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, National Geographic, Wired, Outside, Lapham’s Quarterly, McSweeney’s,* and *The Los Angeles Review of Books*, among other publications.

He is the recipient of a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant, as well as fellowships from UC Berkeley and the MIT Knight Science Journalism Program. His work has been anthologized in several editions of *The Best American Science and Nature Writing* series.

*source: official website*