Chris Colin

Chris Colin has written about billionaires, rivers, rent-a-friends, endangered noodles, solitary confinement and more for the New York Times, Pop-Up Magazine, Wired, NewYorker.com, Outside, Afar and Saveur. He's the author most recently of Off: The Day the Internet Died, as well as What to Talk About, What Really Happened to the Class of '93 and Blindsight, named one of Amazon's Best Books of 2011.

He's been nominated for a James Beard award, and his writing has appeared in Best American Science & Nature Writing. He also publishes Six Feet of Separation, the nation’s first pandemic newspaper by and for kids; Dan Rather called it “a virtual newspaper for our troubled times.”

www.chriscolin.com