Roberta Kwok is an award-winning freelance science journalist in the Seattle area who has contributed to NewYorker.com, Nature, NYTimes.com, Hakai, Audubon, U.S. News & World Report, and many other publications. She also provides writing and editing services to research institutions. Roberta earned a B.Sc. in biology from Stanford University, an M.F.A. in creative writing from Indiana University Bloomington, and a graduate certificate in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz. From 2020-21, she was a Project Fellow at MIT’s Knight Science Journalism Program. She’s currently working on a book about the scientific process, funded partly by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which will be published by Sourcebooks in 2025.
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The Southern Review
A photograph of a narwhal, the “unicorn of the sea,” captures a girl’s attention. Anthologized in Best Small Fictions 2019.
Iceland’s forgotten fisherwomen
Sapiens
Many Icelandic women fished in the 18th and 19th centuries, but their work has been largely unrecognized.
Conducting science at the speed of law
Hakai
Six years after the oyster industry in Apalachicola Bay, Florida, collapsed, scientists still don’t agree on what happened.
Image credits: Roberta Kwok; Brehms Thierleben/Wikimedia Commons; Þjóðminjasafn Íslands/National Museum of Iceland; Florida Memory/Wikimedia Commons