Amanda Moon is Senior Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux where she manages the Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux book imprint. She has acquired and edited many award-winning books in science, psychology, education, and more. Current books on her list include What a Plant Knows by Danny Chamovitz, Gravity’s Engines by Caleb Scharf, Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? by Jesse Bering, The Wisdom of Psychopaths by Kevin Dutton, The Best Science Writing Online 2012 (series editor, Bora Zivkovic; guest editor Jennifer Ouellette), My Beloved Brontosaurus by Brian Switek, and Frankenstein’s Cat by Emily Anthes. Prior to SA/FSG, Moon was an editor at Palgrave Macmillan, an editor at Basic Books, a freelance editor, and served as a Preferred Provider for She Writes. On Twitter: @amsciam