Megan Scudellari is an award-winning freelance journalist and science writer based in Boston, Massachusetts, specializing in the life and environmental sciences. She has contributed to many magaziens including, but not limited to, Scientific American, Newsweek, Nature, Technology Review, and Discover. For 5 years Megan worked as a correspondent and later as a contributing editor for The Scientist magazine. In 2013, she was awarded the prestigious Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award in recognition of outstanding writing and reporting in science. Megan has also received accolades for investigative reporting on traumatic brain injury and a feature story on prosthetics that mimic a sense of touch.

She received an MS from the Graduate Program in Science Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a BA from Boston College, and she has worked as an educator at the Museum of Science, Boston.