Linda Marsa author of Fevered

Linda Marsa is an award-winning investigative journalist and a contributing editor at Discover who has covered medicine, health and science for more than two decades.  She is a former Los Angeles Times reporter and author of Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Harm Our Health and How We Can Save Ourselves (Rodale, 2013), about how climate change will affect our health.

Her Discover story, “Going to Extremes,” about climate change in Australia, was selected for inclusion in The Best American Science Writing, 2012.  She is also the author of Prescriptions for Profits, about corporate intrusion in academic medicine, and she had written for numerous other publications, including Parade, Mother Jones, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Los Angeles, Pacific Standard, Reader’s Digest, Popular Science, Financial Times, and Utne Reader.