Kris Newby

Kris Newby is the author of the book “Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons.” BOOK HONORS 2020: International Book Award Winner in Narrative Non-Fiction 2020: Nautilus Silver Book Award in Journalism & Investigative Reporting 2019: #1 best book in public health by BookAuthority 2019: Bookworm best books of 2019 2019: Kirkus starred review 2019: STAT's 23 best health and science books to read this summer (BITTEN #8) 2019: Stanford Medicine best reads of 2019 2019: Amazon bestseller in three categories As a science writer at Stanford University for nearly a decade, she won several national writing awards for her character-driven, long form stories, including: ---2015 Gold Award for Periodical Staff Writing for “Immune system disruption: The search for answers,” the story of a young woman felled by chronic fatigue syndrome in Stanford Medicine Magazine. ---2015 Long Reads’ Weekly Top Five for the article “Rocket Men: Analyzing the breath of critically ill children at warp speed” in Stanford Medicine Magazine. ---2014 AAMC Writing Award for Excellence, CASE Gold Award, & Long Reads’ Weekly Top Five for the article “Against the Odds: A Band of Rebels Fights to Save Health Care” in Stanford Medicine Magazine. She was the senior producer of the Lyme disease documentary “Under Our Skin,” which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, was nominated as an Academy Award semifinalist in 2010, and went on to win 20 documentary film awards. She was also a finalist for the 2013 Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Golden Padlock Award for her persistence in hounding the Centers for Disease Control to release emails that illuminated financial conflicts of the CDC and the authors of the Infectious Disease Society of America’s 2006 Lyme Guidelines. (It took 5.5 years for the CDC to release the emails, one of the longest delays in the agency’s history.) Newby has two degrees in engineering, a bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah and a master’s degree from Stanford University. She spent more than a decade as a freelance writer working for magazines and tech companies such as Apple Computer, Microsoft and Netscape. She lives in Palo Alto, CA, with her husband. Official author page: www.krisnewby.com Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/kris.newby.3 Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/newbykris/ UNDER OUR SKIN Trailer: https://underourskin.com/uos1#film "Stanford Medicine" magazine articles: https://stan.md/2U8zNUL