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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Why Rebecca Skloot?

The following are her awards for her work done:


* "Two Americas, Two Restaurants, One Town": Best Food Writing, 2005

* When Pets Attack: Best Personal Essay of the Year by the American Society of
Journalists and Authors

* Putting the Gene Back in Genealogy: Selected as a notable essay by the 2005 Best
American Essays

* Two Americas, Two Restaurants, One Town Notable essay by the 2005 Best American
Travel Writing.

Who is Rebecca Skloot?

Rebecca L. Skloot is a freelance science writer, a contributing editor at Popular Science, and a correspondent for PBS's NOVA scienceNOW.

She has written feature stories, essays, and reviews for The New York Times and New York Times Magazine, Discover Magazine, and New York Magazine. She specializes in science and medicine. Rebecca is on the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle. She is a faculty member at the yearly Mid-Atlantic Summer Creative Nonfiction Writers Conference and former University of Pittsburgh nonfiction faculty member. She currently resides in Memphis, TN, where she teaches Creative Nonfiction in the MFA Program at the University of Memphis.