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Jennifer Frazer

GPSW 2004

Jennifer Frazer

Biology, earth sciences


Jennifer Frazer is the author of The Slime Mold’s Guide to World Domination (Dutton, 2025). She wrote the Scientific American‘s Artful Amoeba blog for more than a decade and won the 2007 AAAS Science Journalism Award for her stories on elk deaths in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle. Her bylines can be found in Scientific American Magazine, Nature, National Geographic, High Country News, and Grist, among others. Her work has also been featured on RadioLab and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Recent Publications Include: