Kelly Weinersmith
Biologist, writer and podcaster
Kelly Weinersmith is an American biologist and writer on the faculty at Rice University. She co-wrote Soonish and A City on Mars with her husband, Zach Weinersmith.
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About Kelly Weinersmith
Kelly Weinersmith is an American biologist, writer and podcaster. She holds a faculty post in the BioSciences department at Rice University, and her research looks at parasites that change how their hosts behave. She co-hosts the podcast Science...sort of. She also collaborates, as an alumna, with the Parasite Ecology Group at UC Santa Barbara. Her work has been covered by The Atlantic, National Geographic, Science and Nature. Soonish (2017) and A City on Mars (2023) are science books she wrote together with her husband, Zach Weinersmith.