Robin Marantz Henig is a freelance journalist, contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, and an adjunct professor of journalism at NYU. She has written nine books, including The Monk in the Garden, Pandora's Baby, and, most recently, Twentysomething (co-authored with her daughter, Samantha Henig). Robin co-edited the Field Guide for Science Writers, and articles of hers were chosen to be in the Best American Science and Nature Writing anthologies in 2005, 2007, 2008, and 2014. She's a former Guggenheim Foundation fellow, and is the current president of NASW. She and her husband Jeff live in Manhattan.