Roberta Kwok is the author of LOST IN CURIOSITY: Field Notes From Scientists’ Adventures into the Unknown, which was chosen by indie booksellers as an Indie Next pick and for the Indies Introduce list of best summer/fall 2026 debuts. She is a freelance science journalist whose work has appeared in NewYorker.com, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Nature, New Scientist, Science News, Aeon, Audubon, Hakai, Sapiens, Quanta, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the San Francisco Chronicle, and U.S. News & World Report.

Roberta won the American Geophysical Union’s Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism (Features) in 2010 and an American Association for the Advancement of Science Kavli Science Journalism Award (silver) in children’s science news in 2016. Her flash essay “Click,” published in The Southern Review, was anthologized in The Best Small Fictions 2019. She was a 2020-21 Project Fellow at MIT’s Knight Science Journalism Program and received a Public Understanding of Science and Technology grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

In addition to being a journalist, she regularly writes about finance, economics, and business for publications at the Yale School of Management and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Other university clients include Stanford University, Harvard University, UC Berkeley, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and the NIH's Center for Cancer Research.

Roberta has taught freelance business planning and strategy at the Courage Camp and Level Up workshops for science writers, as well as profile writing for UC Santa Cruz's science communication master's program. She currently teaches writers, artists, and other creative professionals about investing and retirement planning.

Roberta holds a BSc in biology with a minor in mathematics from Stanford University, an MFA in fiction writing from Indiana University Bloomington, and a graduate certificate in science communication from UC Santa Cruz. Before becoming a writer, she worked as a software engineer in molecular biology labs at Stanford’s School of Medicine and McGill University.