Rebecca Skloot
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Rebecca L. Skloot (born 1972) is a freelance science writer, a contributing editor at Popular Science, and a correspondent for PBS's NOVA scienceNOW.
She has written feature stories, essays, and reviews for The New York Times and New York Times Magazine, Discover Magazine, and New York Magazine. She specializes in science and medicine. Rebecca is on the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle. She is a faculty member at the yearly Mid-Atlantic Summer Creative Nonfiction Writers Conference and former University of Pittsburgh nonfiction faculty member. She currently resides in New York City.
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[edit] Awards
- "Two Americas, Two Restaurants, One Town": Best Food Writing, 2005
- When Pets Attack: Best Personal Essay of the Year by the American Society of Journalists and Authors
- Putting the Gene Back in Genealogy: Selected as a notable essay by the 2005 Best American Essays
- Two Americas, Two Restaurants, One Town Notable essay by the 2005 Best American Travel Writing.
[edit] Memberships
- American Society of Journalists and Authors
- National Association of Science Writers
- National Book Critics Circle
[edit] Selected publications
- HeLa: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Forthcoming from Crown Books)
- The New York Times Magazine; April 16, 2006; Taking the Least of You. The Tissue-Industrial Complex
- New York Magazine; October 11, 2004; When Pets Attack: Sure, crime is down, but have you heard about the pack of wild dogs? Skloot's Border collie’s near-death experience, and the stubborn loophole that makes the streets of Manhattan a dog-eat-dog world
- The New York Times Magazine, May 2, 2004; Fixing Nemo: Does Your Goldfish Suffer From Tumors, Broken Bones, Impacted Eggs or Unattractive Scales? Vets Can Now Fix Them
- The New York Times; February 22, 2003; The Other Baby Experiment
- The New York Times; November 17, 2001 Cells That Save Lives are a Mother's Legacy Cells That Save Lives Are a Mother's Legacy
- Pitt Magazine, March 2001; Obsessed With Culture: George Gey and his quest to cure cancer, with the help of Henrietta Lacks
- Johns Hopkins Magazine; April 2000; Henrietta's Dance
