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Rebecca Skloot is an award-winning science writer, and a contributing editor at Popular Science magazine; she's worked as a correspondent for the NPR show RadioLab, and PBS Nova ScienceNOW. Her writing appears in The New York Times Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, Discover and others. She teaches in the University of Memphis's creative writing program. Her first book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, is forthcoming from Crown on February 2, 2010. It tells the story of HeLa -- the first immortal human cell line ever grown in culture (pictured in the blog's banner) -- the woman those cells came from, and the family she left behind. Click Welcome to Culture Dish for an introduction to this blog and its author.
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See Welcome to Culture Dish for an introduction to this blog and its author, Rebecca Skloot, a contributing editor at Popular Science magazine and a sometimes correspondent for the NPR show RadioLab. She writes feature stories, essays, and reviews for The New York Times and New York Times Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, Discover, Columbia Journalism Review, New York Magazine and others, including the PBS television series Nova ScienceNOW, where she's worked as an on-air correspondent. Skloot specializes in writing about science and medicine, but is known to cover a wide range of topics, from food politics and goldfish surgery to packs of wild dogs in Manhattan. Her work has been anthologized in several textbooks and essay collections, including The Best Food Writing, and Norton's Best Creative Nonfiction anthology.
Skloot's first book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, is forthcoming from Crown, a division of Random House, February 2, 2010. To pre-order her book click here.
Skloot is a former vice president of the National Book Critics Circle, where she was the founder of Critical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics Circle.
Skloot - who has taught in NYU's graduate Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program and the University of Pittsburgh's creative nonfiction program - now teaches creative nonfiction in the MFA program at the University of Memphis. Skloot has appeared as a guest on numerous radio and television shows and is a regularly invited speaker for talks and workshops nationwide on subjects ranging from bioethics to book proposals and freelance writing.
She financed her undergraduate and graduate degrees in biomedical sciences and nonfiction writing by working in emergency rooms, neurology labs, veterinary morgues and martini bars. She now divides her time between Memphis and two other cities she loves -- Manhattan and Portland, Oregon. She occasionally abandons city life to write in the hills of West Virginia.
For more information, visit her website and friend her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter, and check out her often-requested tips on breaking in as a freelance writer here, and her Tips for Successful Book Reviewing here.
