Ed Yong Biography

Ed Yong is a science journalist who reports for The Atlantic and is based in Washington DC.
His work appears several times a week on The Atlantic's website and has also featured in National Geographic the New Yorker Wired Nature New Scientist Scientific American and many more. He has won a variety of awards including the Michael E. DeBakey Journalism Award for biomedical reporting in 2016 the Byron H. Waksman Award for Excellence in the Public Communication of Life Sciences in 2016 and the National Academies Keck Science Communication Award in 2010 for his old blog Not Exactly Rocket Science. He regularly does talks and radio interviews; his TED talk on mind-controlling parasites has been watched by over 1.5 million people.
I Contain Multitudes his first book looks at the amazing partnerships between animals and microbes. Published in 2016 it became a New York Times bestseller and was listed in best-of-2016 lists by the NYT NPR the Economist the Guardian and several others. Bill Gates called it science journalism at its finest and Jeopardy! turned it into a clue.

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