Roberta Kwok is an award-winning freelance science journalist in the Seattle area who has contributed to NewYorker.com, NYTimes.com, Nature, Hakai, Audubon, U.S. News & World Report, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and many other publications. She also writes articles for university magazines. Roberta earned a B.Sc. in biology from Stanford University, an M.F.A. in creative writing from Indiana University Bloomington, and a graduate certificate in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz. From 2020-21, she was a Project Fellow at MIT’s Knight Science Journalism Program. Her book about the scientific process, LOST IN CURIOSITY: Field Notes From Scientists’ Adventures into the Unknown, was funded partly by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and is forthcoming from Sourcebooks in July 2026.
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