Sonia Shah is a science journalist and prize-winning author of critically acclaimed books on science, politics and human-animal relations. Her latest book, The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move , explores our centuries-long assumptions about human and animal migration through science, history, and reporting, predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change. A finalist for the 2021 PEN/E.O Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, it was selected as a best nonfiction b
Sonia’s 2016 book, Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond –available in August 2020 with a new preface–has been called “superbly written,” ( The Economist) , “bracingly intelligent” ( Nature ), “provocative” and “chilling,” ( New York Times ), a “lively, rigorously researched and highly informative read,” ( Wall Street Journal) and “absorbing, complex, and ominous,” ( Publishers Weekly ). It was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and as a finalist for
Her 2010 book, The Fever , which was called a “tour-de-force history of malaria” ( New York Times ), “rollicking” ( Time ), and “brilliant” ( Wall Street Journal ) was long-listed for the Royal Society’s Winton Prize . Her writing on science, politics, and human-animal relations has appeared in the New York Times Magazine , the New Yorker, the Nation , Foreign Affairs , Scientific American and elsewhere and has been featured on CNN, RadioLab , Fresh Air , and TED.com, where her talk, “ Three Reasons We St