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Mara Hvistendahl is a science and environment journalist with an unfortunate carbon footprint. Proficient in Mandarin and Spanish, she has reported from the Tibetan plateau, the Amazon rainforest, and rural Texas for publications including
Science,
Harper's,
The New Republic,
Scientific American,
the Financial Times magazine,
Popular Science,
The Chronicle of Higher Education,
the Walrus,
Seed,
and the Los Angeles Times.
After receiving a B.A. from Swarthmore College in comparative literature and Chinese, Mara attended Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism on a Kurt Schork Scholarship. Since 2004, she has been based in Shanghai, where she teaches at Fudan University School of Journalism. Mara is now writing her first book, a narrative nonfiction work on prenatal sex selection and gender imbalance in Asia and Eastern Europe, due out in 2011 from Public Affairs.
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