Elizabeth Royte has written for The New York Times magazine, Harpers, National Geographic, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Outside, Smithsonian, and other national magazines. Her work is included in The Best American Science Writing, multiple years (Ecco/HarperCollins), the environmental omnibus Naked (FourWallsEightWindows), and Outside magazine's Why Moths Hate Thomas Edison (W.W. Norton & Company). A former Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow, and a Ted Scripps Fellow for 2018-2019, Royte has been a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, a contributing editor for the Food and Environment Reporting Network and OnEarth, and a correspondent for Smithsonian and Outside magazines. She is the author of The Tapir's Morning Bath: Solving the Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2001; Garbage Land, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2005, and Bottlemania. Royte lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their daughter.
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