Researcher, Telescope Array Project, University of Utah, US
Jamie Zvirzdin researches ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays with the Telescope Array Project at the University of Utah. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in Writing & Literature from Bennington College in 2015 and taught graduate-level science writing at Johns Hopkins University for six years, receiving the 2019 Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2023 Distinguished Professional Achievement Award. She is the author of Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to Make Language Matter (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023) and writes a monthly science column for newspapers in Central New York. Her science essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Orion Magazine, Brevity Magazine, The Kenyon Review, and others.