Todd Neff

I’m a writer based in Denver, Colorado. My latest book, "A Beard Cut Short," is a biography with a good deal of investigative reporting about John Rubadeau, my former University of Michigan writing professor.

My prior book, "The Laser That’s Changing the World," tells the story of the inventors and innovators who saw, and ultimately realized, the potential of lidar to help solve a dizzying array of problems – perhaps most prominently, vehicle autonomy.

My first book, "From Jars to the Stars," shows how Ball Aerospace came to be and then managed to blast a sizable crater in the comet 9P/Tempel 1. It won the Colorado Book Award for History.

I covered science and the environment for the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colorado, and have taught narrative nonfiction at the University of Colorado. I have been a Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism at CU.

I graduated from the University of Michigan and with master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.