My focus as a writer, teacher, and editor is to forge, strengthen, and refine science writing—from fiction to non-fiction and across all registers of writing. Careful, honest, and diplomatic science communication will help us recognize and dispose of scientific dross.
This past year I taught astronomy and my new Writing the Universe interdisciplinary course at the Pierre and Marie Curie School in Managua, Nicaragua. This coming year I will teach the Prizewinners course for the Science Writing master's program at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), as well as science writing courses at the Universidad Americana de Managua (UAM).
Before this I was a science editor for seven years, acting as managing editor for the Brussels-based NGO Atomium Culture and as a proofreader of graduate-level textbooks on engineering, computer programming, optics, mathematics, statistics, and astrophysics for CRC Press (a member of the Taylor & Francis Group). I am currently working on a novel and a series of science essays.
This past year I taught astronomy and my new Writing the Universe interdisciplinary course at the Pierre and Marie Curie School in Managua, Nicaragua. This coming year I will teach the Prizewinners course for the Science Writing master's program at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), as well as science writing courses at the Universidad Americana de Managua (UAM).
Before this I was a science editor for seven years, acting as managing editor for the Brussels-based NGO Atomium Culture and as a proofreader of graduate-level textbooks on engineering, computer programming, optics, mathematics, statistics, and astrophysics for CRC Press (a member of the Taylor & Francis Group). I am currently working on a novel and a series of science essays.
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10/13/17 Magazine event launch at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the publication of a collaborative Science & Religion issue. "Shuddering Before the Beautiful" essay won the $5,000 runner-up prize and can be found in both Creative Nonfiction Magazine and Issues in Science & Technology.
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Photo by Matthew G. Bisanz.
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9/16/17 "On the Revolution of Revolutions: Nicaraguan Women After War" accepted for publication for a special 10-year anniversary issue at CONSEQUENCE Magazine. Forthcoming January 2018.
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8/28/17 Started teaching the Prizewinners course at Johns Hopkins University. Find more information on the Science Writing Master's Program at JHU here. Will be teaching the Science-Medical Writing Workshop Spring 2018 semester.
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7/3/17 Creative Nonfiction Magazine will publish essay "'Shuddering Before the Beautiful': Trains of Thought Across the Mormon Cosmos" this October as part of a special issue on science & religion.
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5/30/17 Accepted position to teach science writing to MA students at Johns Hopkins University.
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5/25/17 Spoke with Sandra Cisneros during her visit to Nicaragua. Her message to Nicaraguan girls: 1) make your own money, 2) control your own fertility, 3) learn to enjoy being alone.
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5/8/17 Interviewed Comandante Dora María Téllez. Essay forthcoming in CONSEQUENCE Magazine.
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5/7/17 Took Pierre and Marie Curie students to see the movie Hidden Figures--free tickets and special viewing courtesy of the U.S. Embassy.
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4/30/17 Judged NASA's SpaceApps Challenge at Universidad Americana de Managua.
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3/9/17 Assembly at Pierre and Marie Curie School with Dr. Jaime Incer Barquero to award my students for analyzing images from the Pan-STARRS observatory in Hawaii and preliminarily discovering 10 new asteroids through the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC).
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1/26/16 Fully armed and operational astronomical station at Pierre and Marie Curie School, Managua, Nicaragua.
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10/24/16 "Landscape with Broken Fire Hydrant: An Interview with Jamie Zvirzdin" published by MFA Day Job.
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9/6/16 "Observations of a Science Editor: If Romantic Scientists Pilfered Fiction's Toolbox, So Can You" published by The Kenyon Review as part of a special discussion on "The Poetics of Science." Responses to the essay from scientists, writers, and editors will be posted throughout September and October.
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9/1/16 Fresh Courage Take nominated for Best Anthology by the John Whitmer Historical Association.
3/5/16 Fresh Courage Take finalist for the 2015 Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters, Creative Non-fiction. |
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