Victoria Schlesinger is an award-winning writer, reporter, and editor specializing in the environment and science. She has written for Harper’s Magazine, New York Times, Mother Jones, Audubon, Discover, The Christian Science Monitor, California Lawyer, and PBS Frontline, among other outlets. She is also the author of Animals and Plants of the Ancient Maya: A Guide, published by the University of Texas Press in 2002. Schlesinger received a master’s in journalism in 2005 as well as in science and environmental journalism in 2006 from Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism.