April Reese is managing editor at Cosmos, an Australian science magazine with a global reach. She edits features, news and other sections of the print magazine and oversees the production of each issue. Previously, she was an editor at Discover and spent more than a decade as a staff writer at E&E Publishing’s Greenwire and Land Letter, where she also served as editor in the early 2000s. She has freelanced for various publications over the years, including the Christian Science Monitor, High Country News, atlantic.com and smithsonian.com. She holds a master’s degree in environmental studies from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and bachelor’s degrees in English and Geography from Frostburg State University in Maryland. She lives in Melbourne, Australia.