Ferris Jabr is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the author of Becoming Earth, which is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Oregon Book Award. Reviewers have described Becoming Earth 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 other publications. His work has received the support of fellowships from Yale, MIT, and UC Berkeley, as well as grants from the Pulitzer Center and the Whiting Foundation, and 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.