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Virginia Hughes is a journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. She’ll write about anything, but most of her stories involve brains, genes or biotechnology, sometimes all at once.
Virginia’s writing has appeared in Nature, New Scientist, Popular Science, Scientific American and several popular blogs, including The Last Word on Nothing, NOVA’s Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers, Smithsonian’s Surprising Science, and the autism blog On SFARI. Her article “Our Body the Ecosystem,” published in Popular Science, will be included in the 2012 Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology. You can see her favorite articles here and her most recent pieces here.
Virginia was once the community manager of ScienceBlogs and has also worked for Discover Magazine, Seed Magazine and NPR‘s science desk. She studied neuroscience at Brown and science writing at Johns Hopkins. Her Brown degree was not, as is commonly assumed, made of hemp.
All questions and comments are welcome: virginia.hughes@gmail.com.
