#  Zoë Schlanger 

Writer and Author of The Light Eaters

 

 

 



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Zoë Schlanger is a staff writer at the Atlantic, where she covers climate change. She is the author of *The Light Eaters* (HarperCollins, 2024), a New York Times bestselling book about the world of plant behavior and intelligence research. Her work has appeared in *The New York Times*, *The New York Review of Books*, and on NPR, among other major outlets. She was the recipient of a 2017 National Association of Science Writers reporting award for coverage of air pollution in Detroit and a finalist for the 2019 Livingston Award for a series on water politics at the Texas-Mexico border. She lives in New York.