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My latest book is about extraordinary new sensory research for St. Martin's Press. FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE: THE ASTONISHING NEW SCIENCE OF THE SENSES has been named a "must-read" by Malcolm Gladwell and his team at the Next Big Idea Club.I am the coauthor of STRUCK BY GENIUS: HOW A BRAIN INJURY MADE ME A MATHEMATICAL MARVEL with savant Jason Padgett, a Kirkus Star recipient and an Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Biography & Memoirs. It is currently being adapted as a film treatment.I have written for the New York Times, National Geographic, ESPN the magazine, Vogue, Glamour, Psychology Today, the Daily Beast and many other venues. My nature photos and videography have also been featured in National Geographic.My writing has been optioned for dramatization eight times.I have several forms of synesthesia, including the profound empathy of mirror touch and in 2013 tested positive for the genetic basis for tetrachromacy, or the presence of a fourth cone class for color perception in my eyes. I have subsequently tested positive for functionality through Arizona State University by a team led by Kristopher Jake Patten, Ph.D. and including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek.Vogue called me the "Girl With Kaleidoscope Eyes" in a feature in 2014. I'm very honored to have collaborated with MAC Cosmetics as the inspiration for and color consultant on a line of super-pigmented lipstick called Liptensity.Reports about me have also appeared in the New Yorker, New York Magazine, NPR, Allure, French Vogue, Teen Vogue, Glamour, Elle, Cosmopolitan, NYLON, Refinery29, Women's Wear Daily, TEDWeekends and many other publications.I am an alumna of the inaugural Norman Mailer Writers Colony.

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