Olga Khazan
Journalist and author
Olga Khazan is a Soviet-born American journalist and a staff writer at The Atlantic. She wrote Weird, a book about being an outsider.
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About Olga Khazan
Olga Khazan was born in the Soviet Union and works in the United States as a journalist. She writes about health, science and social science, and has been at The Atlantic since 2013, where she is a staff writer. Her journalism has won several awards, including the 2017 National Headliner Award for Magazine Online Writing. Weird was her first book and came out in 2020. She later wrote Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change (2025).