Catherine Price

Catherine Price is passionate about learning and experiencing new things, understanding first principles, and using her background as a science journalist to help people question their assumptions and make positive changes in their lives. Her journalistic work has appeared in publications including The Best American Science Writing, The New York Times, Popular Science, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post Magazine, Parade, Salon, Slate, Men’s Journal, Self, Mother Jones, Health Magazine, and Outside, among others.

Catherine Price is a recipient of a Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Reporting, a two-time Société de Chimie Industrielle fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, an ASME nominee, a 2013 resident at the Mesa Refuge, a fellow in both the Food and Medical Evidence Boot Camps at the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, and winner of the Gobind Behari Lal prize for science writing. My previous books also include the parody travel guide 101 Places Not to See Before You Die (HarperPaperbacks, 2010) and The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook (HarperCollins, 2009).

A graduate of Yale University and UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, She frequently writes about food, science, nutrition, mindfulness, hormones, and Type 1 diabetes, with which she was diagnosed when I was 22 years old. I also particularly enjoy writing reported personal essays about things she finds funny, odd, or uncomfortable (or all three), including—but not limited to—eating roadkill, "winning" Flywheel, sampling moonshine, limiting my diet to things that she has Vitamixed, basing travel entirely on the recommendations of strangers, and investigating the horror that is partner yoga. Catherine is originally from NYC and has lived in the Bay Area (Oakland) for several years. She currently lives in Philadelphia.