Amanda Mascarelli is the managing editor of SAPIENS, a digital magazine covering anthropology for a popular audience. Prior to this role, she spent more than a decade as a freelance science journalist. Her work has appeared in Audubon, Nature, Science, New Scientist, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and elsewhere, and she is a contributor to The Science Writers' Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Pitch, Publish, and Prosper in the Digital Age.

Twitter: @A_Mascarelli