Michelle Nijhuis

Michelle Nijhuis is the author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction, a history of the conservation movement published by W.W. Norton in 2021. She is a project editor at The Atlantic and a longtime contributing editor of the environmental journal High Country News; her award-winning writing about science and the environment appears in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications. She is also the author of The Science Writers' Essay Handbook and the co-editor of The Science Writers' Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Pitch, Publish, and Prosper in the Digital Age.