Jamie Zvirzdin is a science editor, a freelance writer, and an astronomy teacher. Although initially a programmer for the HiRes Cosmic Ray Research experiment at the University of Utah, she eventually received an MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington College, and she is the founder of the Unbound Bookmaker Project, which publishes books written and illustrated by children in developing countries. This fall, in addition to astronomy classes, she is teaching an interdisciplinary class called “Writing the Universe” at the Pierre and Marie Curie School in Managua, Nicaragua.
Fall 2016: The Poetics of Science
Observations of a Science Editor: If Romantic Scientists Pilfered Fiction’s Toolbox, You Can Too
Adapted from a lecture given at Bennington College in June 2015 It is no secret that science writing is often abysmally inaccessible, even for the initiated—like a bizarre ancient ritual […]