Bio
Whether discussing the cannabalistic ways of mantis shrimp or shaking the sticky foot of a male African clawed frog, Sujata reports on the strange world of science. Her work has appeared in Wired, ScienceNOW, Earth Magazine, and various alt-weeklies. She started her journalism career at a daily newspaper in upstate New York. Sujata graduated with a degree in English from Cornell University and is currently working toward her master's in science writing at Johns Hopkins University. At Hopkins, she spends her time exploring silent senses and the morphogenesis of things both animate and inanimate, and stays in the black by teaching a freshman writing course. In previous incarnations, Sujata has taught English to middle-schoolers in Japan, edited a book about 18th-century Madawaskans as a park ranger at Acadia National Park, gotten lost on a remote Korean island, sold smoothies while volunteering at an organic farm in Hawaii, taught tennis to 5-year-olds, and been bitten by a centipede four times (they travel in pairs, attack without provocation, and are reputed to inflict one of the most painful wounds in the animal kingdom). She currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland with two pleasantly plump cats and a less plump but still pleasant husband.