Ferris Jabr is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the author of Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life, which reviewers have described as an “electrifying” and “infectiously poetic” “masterwork of journalism” that “earns its place alongside the best of today’s essential popular science books, as well as acknowledged classics.” He has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, National Geographic, and Scientific American, among other publications.

He is the recipient of a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant, as well as fellowships from MIT and UC Berkeley. His work has been anthologized in several editions of The Best American Science and Nature Writing series.

He 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.