Katharine Gammon is a freelance science writer in Santa Monica, California. She’s written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, Wired, National Geographic, The Guardian, and other outlets. Her work was featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing of 2020 anthology and she currently serves as an adjunct professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. You can find her on Twitter at @kategammon.

Thesis: Changing Her Tune: How a Transsexual Woman Claims a New Identity through Voice

Recent Publications Include:

• Inside the Frozen Zoo, Where Scientists Put Disappearing Species on Ice: ‘It’s Banking Hope’
• Humpback Whales Caught Humping
• There’s Even Plastic in Clouds
• What Gets Enemies to Negotiate
• ‘There is Power in a Name’: Why Dozens of American Birds are Being Renamed