Jennie Erin Smith is a science journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, TLS, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, Undark, and others. She is a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Award, a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Mass., two first-place awards from the Society for Features Journalism, and the Waldo Proffitt Award for Environmental Journalism. She lives in Florida and Colombia.