Douglas Fox is a freelance writer based in northern California. He has written for Discover, Scientific American, Slate, Esquire, Science News for Students, The Christian Science Monitor, High Country News, Nature, and National Geographic. His stories have garnered awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2009), American Society of Journalists and Authors (2011), National Association of Science Writers (2013), and the American Geophysical Union (2015).