Articles Editor @undarkmag • Instructor @nyu_journalism • Books: Infested (2015) & The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking (2016 & 2023) • She/Her • 🏳️‍🌈

Brooke Borel’s Biography

Science writer and journalist. Contributing editor at Popular Science, blogger at Our Modern Plagues on the Popular Science network, author of Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated our Bedrooms and Took Over the World (April 2015, University of Chicago Press). Has also written for: Slate, BBC Future, Aeon, TED, NOVA Next, and more.