Katherine Harmon Courage is an award-winning freelance journalist and editor who traded in the wilds of New York City for those of Colorado.

From there she works as a contributing editor for Scientific American and also writes for The New York Times, Wired, Gourmet, Popular Science, Prevention, ESPN The Magazine, as well as numerous websites, including NationalGeographic.com,  Time.com, Oprah.com, NPR.org, FastCompany.com, and Nature.com. Her work ranges from breaking science news to features about food. And she has dabbled in podcasts, blogging, and video along the way.

Her first book, OCTOPUS! The Most Mysterious Creature In the Sea is out from Current, a division of Penguin Random House–and is now available in paperback.

Her work was also featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013.

She has just finished her second book, an adventure in eating for our microbes, which will be published by Penguin Random House’s Pam Krauss Books Spring 2017. More tasty details to come!

She lives in Longmont, Colorado, with her husband and their dog and four sweet chickens. In her spare time, she runs marathons and competes in triathlons–and is turning her yard into a fruit and vegetable garden.

Follow her on Twitter at @KHCourage and on Facebook for more about health, science, microbes, and, of course, octopuses.