Lisa Margonelli

Biography

Lisa Margonelli is Senior Editor at Issues in Science and Technology. She is the author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long Strange Trip to Your Tank (2007) and Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology (2018). Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Wired, Slate’s Future Tense, Pacific Standard, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications. Formerly the Editor in Chief of Zócalo Public Square, she wrote about energy policy at the New America Foundation from 2006-2012. She lives in Maine.

Read more about Lisa and her work at her homepage: lisamargonelli.com.