Roxanne Khamsi is an independent science journalist whose articles have appeared in publications such as The Economist, WIRED magazine, Nature, Scientific American, New Scientist and The New York Times. She has received wide recognition for her work, including the American Medical Writers Association’s Walter C. Alvarez Award and multiple first-place awards from the Association of Health Care Journalists. Her reporting has been featured on television and radio programs such as CBS News and WNYC's On The Media show. Roxanne has taught health reporting and science communication at Stony Brook University’s Alan Alda Center and at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in New York. She lives in Montreal.