Emily Sohn is a freelance journalist in Minneapolis who has written extensively for people of all ages and sizes. She got her start writing for kids as part of an expedition team that traveled around the world, webcasting to classrooms from places as remote as Cuba, Turkey, and the Peruvian Amazon. She was contributing writer for Science News for Kids (now Science News for Students) for the site's first five years and has written articles, educational materials, graphic novels and books for publications and publishers including the American Chemical Society, Pearson, Scholastic and Capstone Press. Grown-up publications include the Los Angeles Times, Nature, Science News, U.S. News & World Report, Health and Discovery News, where she spent more than five years as a contributor.