Warning to editors: Scammers are now impersonating journalists in their pitches to editors. If “Roberta Kwok” contacts you and the message is not from the exact email address listed on my contact page, it’s not me.
Roberta Kwok is the author of LOST IN CURIOSITY: Field Notes From Scientists’ Adventures into the Unknown, available now from Sourcebooks. She is an award-winning freelance science journalist whose work has appeared in NewYorker.com, The Wall Street Journal, NYTimes.com, Nature, Hakai, Audubon, U.S. News & World Report, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and many other news outlets. Roberta also writes regularly about finance and economics for publications at the Yale School of Management and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and teaches investing and retirement planning workshops for writers and artists. She 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.