Joshua Sokol

Freelance science journalist

Joshua Sokol is a freelance science journalist based in Raleigh, NC. After majoring in English literature and astronomy at Swarthmore College, he worked as a data analyst for the Hubble Space Telescope, then attended the graduate program in science writing at MIT. His work has appeared in Science, the Atlantic, the New York Times, many other publications, and the Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology. Winner of the Evert Clark/Seph Payne Award for Young Science Journalists and science writing awards from the American Astronomical Society, the American Institute of Physics, and the American Geophysical Union, he is now at work on his first book, a natural history of the night sky, for Penguin Random House. His story “The Stargazers,” for Science, is featured on Showcase.