Erik Vance
Science writer and journalist
Erik Vance is a science journalist and the author of Suggestible You, a book on how the mind and body shape our sense of reality.
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About Erik Vance
Erik Vance is an award-winning science writer with a background in biology. Before becoming a journalist in 2005, he worked as a researcher, an educator and an environmental consultant, and he has also been a rock climbing guide. He is a native of the Bay Area and later settled in Mexico. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Nature, Scientific American, Harper's and National Geographic, and he has been a contributing editor at Discover. His reporting centers on the human element of science, covering researchers, those who gain from their work and those who miss out. His first book, Suggestible You, grew out of a feature he wrote for Discover. It explores how the mind and body shape the way we experience reality.