Katherine Harmon Courage is an award-winning journalist and editor. She has worked as a contributing editor for Scientific American and also writes for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wired, Popular Science, Prevention, ESPN The Magazine, as well as numerous websites. Her work ranges from breaking science news to in-depth reporting about the environment to features about food. And she has worked in podcasts, blogging, and video along the way. She is the author of the forthcoming book CULTURED: Adventures In Eating for Your Microbes (Penguin Random House, 2019), as well as OCTOPUS! The Most Mysterious Creature In the Sea (Current/Penguin Random House, 2013). Her work has also been featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing. Previously she worked as director of communications for the College of Natural Sciences at Colorado State University, where she led the rebranding of the college, development of a strategic communications plan, revitalization of the college magazine, a website redesign, and major growth across digital and social media channels.