Ferris Jabr is the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Earth and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. Reviewers have described Becoming Earth as an “electrifying” and “infectiously poetic” “masterwork” that “earns its place alongside the best of today’s essential popular science books, as well as acknowledged classics.”

Ferris has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, National Geographic, and Scientific American, among numerous other publications. He has received fellowships from Yale, MIT, and UC Berkeley, as well as grants from the Pulitzer Center and the Whiting Foundation. His work has been anthologized in four editions of The Best American Science and Nature Writing series.

Ferris has an MA in journalism from New York University and a Bachelor of Science from Tufts University. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his partner, Ryan, their dog, Jack, and more plants than they can count. His surname rhymes with neighbor.