Ann K. Finkbeiner

Born: Unknown

Country of Birth: USA

Nationality: USA

Ethnicity: White

Johns Hopkins University MA The Writing Seminar

""I’m a freelance science writer. I’ve written about most fields of science. I also write about the intersection between science and national security. But usually I write about astronomy, especially about cosmology which — gratifyingly — studies the birth and life of the universe." (anfinkbeiner.com); "I’ve found out that science, besides having crackerjack storylines, not to mention superb metaphors, is a cure for neurotic uncertainty. I’ve always been unsure of what I know. And the whole point of science is exactly that: knowing how you know something so you’re sure of what you know." (smithsonianmag.com); "I’m going to write the profile of an impressive astronomer and not once mention that she’s a woman. I’m not going to mention her husband’s job or her child care arrangements or how she nurtures her students or how she was taken aback by the competitiveness in her field. I’m not going to interview her women students and elicit raves about her as a role model. I’m going to be blindly, aggressively, egregiously ignorant of her gender." (nieman.harvard.edu); "

— Ann K. Finkbeiner

Field of Study: Science Journalist

Institution/Corporation: Johns Hopkins University; The Writing Seminar; The Open Notebook

Degrees & Memberships: Member: Board of The Open Notebook (2014)

Awards: None found

Achievements: wrote a book that explains how parents have changed five to twenty-five years after the deaths of their children prompted by the death of her son & her own reactions; co-proprietor of a science-ish blog, The Last Word on Nothing; her blog comments on what she wasn't going to write about when writing about women scientists inspired Christie Aschwanden to formalize the items & create The Finkbeiner Test a checklist to help science journalists avoid gender bias in articles about women in science-it asks writers to avoid describing women scientists in terms of stereotypically feminine traits, such as their family arrangements;