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:

• The Great Whale Conveyor Belt
• Predatory Bacteria Are Fierce, Ballistic and Full of Potential
• Fungi Might Have Helped Drag the Planet Out of Its ‘Snowball Earth’ Phase
• One Head, 1,000 Rear Ends: The Tale of a Deeply Weird Worm
• 100-Million-Year-Old Seafloor Sediment Bacteria Have Been Resuscitated