Meera Lee Sethi

Meera was born in Singapore quite a long time ago. She spent 19 extremely balmy years there before migrating to the wintry landscapes of first Boston and then Chicago. She blames her subsequently frozen brain for such amusing errors of judgment as attempting to become a middle school teacher, thinking she could learn to swing dance, and repeatedly cutting her own hair.

Meera is now a full time freelance writer and editor. She writes about science because it's one of the best ways she can think of to learn about the beautiful and the bizarre, and because if she followed the admonition to write what you know she would turn out nothing but articles about Hebrew poets and knee-high socks. Meera believes good science writing should do what Emily Dickinson accused poetry of doing: make your whole body shiver with bone-chilling cold, and physically take off the top of your head. You can let her know when she succeeds.

Also look for Meera at Utata.org, where she is a contributing editor.