Lynne Peeples is a freelance science journalist, specializing in the environment, public health and medicine. She holds a M. S. in Biostatistics from Harvard and an M. A. in Science Journalism from New York University. Her writing has appeared in Huffington Post, Nature, Scientific American and The Atlantic, amongst others. A 2020-2021 MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow and a finalist for the 2018 National Association of Science Writers long-form reporting award, she lives in Seattle, Washington.