Mara Hvistendahl is a founding member of the writers' cooperative Deca. A contributing correspondent at Science, she also writes for the New York Times, Matter, the Atlantic, Popular Science, and other publications. Her 2011 book Unnatural Selection, on prenatal sex selection and the whopping gender imbalance it has produced in Asia, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. For eight years, she covered science, politics, and other issues from China. She now lives in Minneapolis.