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Stephen Ornes

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Math Art: Truth, Beauty, and Equations, April 2019
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Stephen Ornes’s Biography

I am an independent science writer who works from an office shed in my backyard in Nashville, Tennessee. Over the last decade, I’ve written about the mathematics of pizza slicing for New Scientist, tumor banking for CR (now Cancer Today), and extrasolar planets for Discover. I specialize in stories about astronomy, physics, cancer research and mathematics; I’m also a regular contributor to Science News for Students, an educational website, and a researcher for Cancer Today magazine.

My first book, a young adult biography of Sophie Germain, was published in 2008. I also contributed two chapters to the Science Writers’ Handbook (2013).

My work has received awards from the AAAS/Kavli (Gold, 2015), the American Society of Journalists and Authors (for “Interrupting cancer’s travel plans,” an article about the science of metastases that appeared in Cancer Today), and the Association of Health Care Journalists (for an article on “What happens to a donated tumor?”)

My first book, a young adult biography of Sophie Germain, was published in 2008. Read an excerpt here. I contributed two chapters to the Science Writers’ Handbook (2013) and served as an editor for pitchpublishprosper.com.