Sonia Shah

Sonia Shah is a journalist, Guggenheim fellow, and the author of The Next Great Migration, a PEN/EO Wilson Prize Finalist, as well as Pandemic, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science/Technology Finalist, and The Fever, long-listed for the Royal Society Winton Prize. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Nation, and elsewhere, and her TED talk on malaria has been viewed more than a million times. A recipient of the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant for her work on her sixth book, The Imaginary Wall, she lives in Baltimore, Maryland and writes about science, politics and humanity's place in the world for the Cross Pollinations newsletter on Substack.

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