Jill Neimark
Jill Neimark is an American writer. Neimark has written one adult novel, a thriller titled "Bloodsong", which was published in both hardcover and paperback, chosen by Book of The Month Club, and translated into German, Italian, and Hebrew. She has also published numerous children's books: "I Want Your Moo" (which was written with psychologist Marcella Bakur Weiner and translated and published in Spanish and Chinese), "Toodles & Teeny", "The Hugging Tree" (which has been featured in dozens of read-a-louds around the world), "The Secret Spiral" and "The Golden Rectangle", among others. She co-authored, with bioethicist  Stephen Post, "Why Good Things Happen to Good People", which was translated and published in Japan, Brazil, Russia, Portugal, India, Sweden, and Taiwan. Neimark has also been published in the "New York Times", "Discover Magazine", "Scientific American", "Science", "The Atlantic Monthly", "Aeon", "Undark Magazine", "Sapiens", "NPR", "Nautilus" and "Psychology Today" on topics ranging from biology and physics to the mind and the soul. She has written poetry and reviews for the "Massachusetts Review", "Borderlands", "Cimarron Review", "The Blue Nib", "The Rumpus" and "The New York Quarterly". She was a contributing editor for "Discover Magazine", and has published on subjects ranging  from human evolution to curing HIV. Her April 2007 cover story in "Discover Magazine", "Understanding Autism" won the 2007 award from the Autism Society of America.