About Jennifer Kahn

Jennifer Kahn has been a contributing editor at Wired magazine since 2003, and a feature writer for The New Yorker, National Geographic, Outside, Discover, Mother Jones, and the New York Times, among others. A graduate of Princeton University and UC Berkeley, she has degrees in astrophysics and journalism, and has been a recipient of the CASE-UCLA media fellowship in neuroscience. Her work has been chosen for the Best American Science Writing series four times in the past seven years, most recently for “A Cloud of Smoke,” her New Yorker article about a policeman whose death four years after 9/11 was not what it seemed.
More at http://www.jenniferkahn.com/
Published Stories:
- The Visionary
- The New Yorker
- A digital pioneer questions what technology has wrought. (Profile of Jaron Lanier)
- The Perfect Stride
- The New Yorker
- A profile of marathon coach Alberto Salazar, and his quest to build the perfect runner.
- A Cloud of Smoke
- The New Yorker
Jennifer Kahn's article about the forensic controversy over a politically-charged death -- the first "dust death" associated with the recovery effort at Ground Zero -- appears in the Sept 15 issue of The New Yorker.