Roberta Kwok

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 news outlets. She also writes regularly about finance and economics for publications at the Yale School of Management and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. 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 LOST IN CURIOSITY: Field Notes From Scientists’ Adventures into the Unknown comes out July 21 and is available for pre-order. Learn more