About Wonderland

Emily Anthes is a freelance science and health writer. Her work has appeared in Scientific American Mind, Psychology Today, Seed, Discover, Slate, Good, New York, Popular Mechanics, Foreign Policy, The Boston Globe, and elsewhere. She is also the author of the Instant Egghead Guide: The Mind (St. Martin’s Press, 2009).

Her blog post, “When a deaf man has Tourette’s,” was selected for inclusion in The Open Laboratory 2010: The Best of Science Writing on the Web.

She is currently working on a book about how biotechnology is shaping the future of animals.

Emily has a master’s degree in science writing from MIT and a bachelor’s degree in the history of science and medicine from Yale, where she also studied creative writing. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her dog, Milo.

Emily can be found on Twitter as @EmilyAnthes.

Her website can be found here.

Images: The portrait above is by the inimitable Kelty Luber. Check out her other great work at Steep Street. The banner is from a photograph taken by Gary Anthes, the man otherwise known as my father. More of his photos can be found here. Apologies to both of them for cropping and resizing their work to fit my own selfish (online) needs.