Bio
Whether discussing the cannibalistic ways of mantis shrimp or shaking the sticky foot of a male African clawed frog, Sujata reports on the strange world of science. A correspondent for New Scientist and freelance science writer, she primarily covers health and environmental issues, including the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Her work has appeared in Wired, Psychology Today, ScienceNOW, Earth Magazine, PNAS and several other publications. She started her journalism career at a daily newspaper in upstate New York. Sujata holds a masters in science writing from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelors in English from Cornell University. At Hopkins, she spent her time exploring silent senses and the morphogenesis of things both animate and inanimate, and stayed 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 San Francisco, California with her pleasantly plump cat and her less plump but still pleasant husband.