Mhirsch

Michele Lent Hirsch is a freelance nonfiction writer with a specialty in science and health. She is also an editor of features, book reviews, fiction manuscripts, and poems. She's covered the neuroscience of why Parmesan tastes good, the personality traits of yentas and eco-braggers, the pitfalls of nuclear waste disposal, and why love songs affect good samaritans. She'll come up with fresh angles when analyzing research and fix that almost-there sentence you've written. Her previous editorial positions at Psychology Today magazine and at Women Under Siege — a journalism project founded by Gloria Steinem to analyze the epidemiology of conflict-zone violence — both fit into a big-picture love of scientific inquiry and helping people out. A native New Yorker, she is usually her best creative self around two in the morning.