I often write about science, though I don’t have a science degree and must fake my way through interviews with experts I can’t understand… I spent a few years working as a freelance copy editor before landing a half-time PR job at the SF Zoo. My office was in a trailer next to Gorilla World. On the days when I wasn’t taking calls about elephant wart removal surgery or denying rumors that the cheetahs had been sucked dry by fleas, I wrote freelance articles for the local newspaper’s Sunday magazine.
Mary Roach has one of the most compelling author bios I’ve ever read.
