Rowan Jacobsen’s award-winning books, features, and talks explore the edges of what it means to be an experiencing intelligence in a world of other related intelligences, from the familiar to the exotic, and how our greater well-being depends on successfully surfing these relationships. His work has appeared in Harper’s, Outside, The Atlantic, Scientific American, Smithsonian, National Geographic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, MIT Technology Review, Businessweek, Forbes, and The Best American Science & Nature Writing. He has received awards from the James Beard Foundation, the Society of American Travel Writers, and the Overseas Press Club. He has spoken at Harvard, Yale, MIT, and the Aspen Ideas Festival, and has appeared on CBS, NBC, and NPR. He has been an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow, writing about endangered diversity on the borderlands between India, Myanmar, and China; a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, focusing on the promises and perils of synthetic biology; and a Media Fellow at the Nova Institute for Health, researching the science of sun exposure. His books include the James Beard finalist Wild Chocolate, the James Beard winner A Geography of Oysters, and the 2026 hit In Defense of Sunlight.