Sushma Subramanian is the author of “How to Feel: The Science and Meaning of Touch.” She is a science and health journalist whose writing has appeared in Slate, The Atlantic, Elle, Scientific American, Discover and many others. Her radio work has aired on WBEZ and CBC. She has twice been a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and was the winner of a Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page Award. She has received research support from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center at Duke, the Genetics and Behavior Journalism Fellowship at UVA, the Center for Health Journalism at USC, the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT, the International Women’s Media Foundation and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Subramanian teaches journalism as an associate professor at the University of Mary Washington and advises the student newspaper, The Weekly Ringer. As a lover and supporter of local journalism, she is on the Journalism Advisory Council for the Fredericksburg Free Press.

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