Jennifer Ackerman has been writing about science, nature, and human biology for almost three decades. Her recent books published by Scribe include The Genius of Birds, The Bird Way, and What Owls Know. A contributor to Scientific American, National Geographic, The New York Times, and many other publications, Ackerman is the recipient of an National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction, a Bunting Fellowship, and a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.