About

Jessica Nordell is an author, poet, and science writer with a background in physics and poetry. Her first book, The End of Bias: A Beginning, was a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize for Excellence in Nonfiction, the NYPL Bernstein Book Award, and the Royal Society Science Book Prize, and has been translated into eight languages. 

Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and The New Republic, and she has published original research in collaboration with computer scientists in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Best New Poets, FIELD, Copper Nickel, and Conduit. Jessica holds degrees in poetry from the University of Wisconsin, where she was the Martha Meier Renk Distinguished Graduate Fellow in Poetry, and in physics from Harvard. She has been a visiting scholar at MIT, and a featured speaker at SXSW and is the recipient of a Gracie Award from American Women in Radio and Television. 

Jessica is keenly interested in repairing ruptured connections in the human and more-than-human world, and in the dialogue and interactions that make all of nature possible. She is a descendent of the last woman to be tried for witchcraft in New England, and plays drums in a dad rock cover band.