Thing About Jellyfish (Benjamin)

Author Bio
Her own words—
I’ve written about astrophysicists and athletes, cosmologists and Arctic conservators, geologists and psychologists and farmers and awesome children. What I enjoy, above all, is telling a good story. This world of ours is complex, but it’s filled with plenty of wonder and sparkle.

I am the author of The Thing About Jellyfish (2015), as well as the co-author of three other books: Tim Howard’s The Keeper (2014), both the adult and young readers’ editions; Paige Rawl’s Positive (2014), a coming-of-age memoir, which was a Junior Library Guild selection and the first-ever nonfiction selection for The Today Show book club; and, with Beth Bader, The Cleaner Plate Club (2010).

I’m currently at work on 200 Million Miles, a novel about people on Earth dreaming of Mars, to be published in 2016

In addition to the books I’ve written, I’ve also written for the Boston Globe Magazine, Martha Stewart’s Whole Living Online, and I was the sole story researcher/casting director for the hour-long primetime special, Sesame Street: Growing Hope Against Hunger, which won a 2012 Emmy Award. (From the author's website.)