Jennifer Ackerman

Jennifer Ackerman has been writing about science and nature for more than three decades. The Genius of Birds was named one of the best nonfiction books of 2016 by the Wall Street Journal, a Best Science Book by NR's Science Friday, and a Nature Book of the Year by the London Sunday Times. The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think was a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Her articles and essays have appeared in National Geographic, the New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, and many other publications. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction.