Julia Scott

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Julia Scott is an award-winning journalist, editor, and podcast expert with an extensive background in international journalism. Her work has been featured in Best American Science Writing, Best American Essays and on Good Morning America. A veteran of three newsrooms, she has brought her narrative storytelling skills to documentaries, experiential audio and news reporting for American Public Media's Marketplace, the CBC, the BBC World Service and Public Radio International's The World. She is a former editor for West Coast NPR stations KQED and KALW.

Her magazine stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Nautilus, Modern Farmer, The Logic and The Walrus.

In pursuit of stories she has slathered herself in bacteria in the name of science, profiled giant pumpkin-growing fanatics and reported from the inside of an iron lung.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2020*

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