#NSWASCIWIRE
Recent work by our members#nswasciwire highlights the published writing of NSWA members each month. Would you like to see your writing featured? Please suggest an item online or send a link or PDF file to Susan Keown at sciencewire@nwscience.org. The NSWA Board of Directors determines what material to present. We look forward to highlighting your work.
Scigliano: Never Forget
Eric Scigliano is hot on the trail of the Woodland Park Zoo elephants. In a series for Crosscut, Eric covers complaints about the treatment of the zoo’s highly visible animals and the zoo’s official response. Like the pachyderms he reports on, Eric has a long memory....
Lindley: Boy Wonder
Robin Lindley interviews the 20-month-old inspiration for the new book Bending Time. Speaking for Seattle toddler Emery Charles Spearman in the Crosscut interview are National Book Award winner Dr. Charles Johnson (Emery’s grandfather) and artist Elisheba Johnson...
Vivion: Site Style
What’s better than m@ as Matt Vivion’s personal logo? How about his stylish professional portfolio, a website that shows off Matt’s web design and writing accomplishments? NSWA is lucky to have Matt serving as an at-large board member and the talent that keeps the...
Nijhuis: Thank You, Rattlesnake
…for giving us science writer Michelle Nijhuis. In the New York Times —a weekly pep talk for writers everywhere—Michelle tells her writer’s origin story. This lovely essay could end up in an anthology of next year’s , just like Michelle’s essay for Scientific American...
Kwok: Pot Shot
Roberta Kwok, new at-large NSWA board member, answers a timely question for Washington and Colorado residents: what is the environmental impact of pesticides from pot farms? Roberta writes about illegal pot producers, but maybe Roberta will follow up with a story on...