Katie is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers science. She’s also a senior editor at The Open Notebook. She previously served as a science reporter for The New York Times, where she reported on the COVID-19 pandemic.

She won a Science in Society journalism award in 2021, and the Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for Young Science Journalists in 2020. She has a spouse, two cats, and a Ph.D. in microbiology. Find her on Twitter, at katherinewu@storycollider.org, or on her website.