Julie Rehmeyer

Julie Rehmeyer is an award winning mathematics and science writer. She is a contributing editor to Discover Magazine, and has been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wired, Slate, Science News, High Country News, Aeon, and more. Her stories have been featured on The History Channel and NPR’s All Things Considered. She wrote mathematics columns for both Science News and Wired. She did graduate work in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a fellowship from the National Science Foundation. She then taught math and the classics at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM. She has a certificate in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the 2015-2016 recipient of Ted Scripps Environmental Journalism Fellow at The University of Colorado, Boulder and a 2015 Miller Journalism Fellow in Complexity Sciences at the Santa Fe Institute. In 2015 she was awarded the Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award from the American Statistical Association. Her work has been featured in Best American Mathematics Writing. She lives in Santa Fe, NM, where she built her own straw-bale house, was a court-appointed special advocate for a foster teen, and ran a search and rescue team.