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Mara Hvistendahl’s writing has appeared in Harper’s, the Financial Times magazine, the The New Republic, Popular Science, the South China Morning Post magazine, the Walrus, Scientific American, the Los Angeles Times, Outside, I.D., Virginia Quarterly Review, Seed, and other publications.

After receiving a B.A. from Swarthmore College in comparative literature and Chinese, Mara attended Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism on an international reporting scholarship, graduating in 2003 with an M.S. in magazine writing. She speaks excellent Mandarin and Spanish and even better English. Since 2004, she has been based in Shanghai, where she currently covers greater China for The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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