Rebecca Skloot

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 Memphis, TN, where she teaches Creative Nonfiction in the MFA Program at the University of Memphis. [http://mfa.memphis.edu/people.html#faculty]

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.

Memberships

* American Society of Journalists and Authors
* National Association of Science Writers
*National Book Critics Circle

elected publications

* [http://www.nasw.org/users/skloot/index_HeLa.htm HeLa: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks] (Forthcoming from Crown Books)
*The New York Times Magazine; April 16, 2006; [http://www.nasw.org/users/skloot/TakingTheLeast.pdf Taking the Least of You. The Tissue-Industrial Complex]
*New York Magazine; October 11, 2004; [http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/urban/pets_animals/features/9986/index.html 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; [http://www.nasw.org/users/skloot/Nemo.htm 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; [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E7DB133DF931A15751C0A9659C8B63&sec=health&pagewanted=print The Other Baby Experiment]
*The New York Times; November 17, 2001 [http://www.nasw.org/users/skloot/NYTHeLa.pdf Cells That Save Lives are a Mother's Legacy Cells That Save Lives Are a Mother's Legacy]
*Pitt Magazine, March 2001; [http://www.umc.pitt.edu/pittmag/mar2001/culture.html Obsessed With Culture: George Gey and his quest to cure cancer, with the help of Henrietta Lacks]
*Johns Hopkins Magazine; April 2000; [http://www.jhu.edu/%7ejhumag/0400web/01.html Henrietta's Dance]

External links

* [http://www.rebeccaskloot.com/ Rebecca Skloot homepage]
* [http://nasw.org/users/skloot/page2.html Rebecca Skloot biography]
* [http://rebeccaskloot.blogspot.com/ Rebecca Skloot blog]
* [http://mfa.memphis.edu/people.html#faculty Rebecca Skloot University of Memphis faculty biography]