Ed Yong is a British American science journalist whose bestselling books include I Contain Multitudes ,a groundbreaking and highly entertaining examination of the relationship between animals and microbes, and An Immense World, which takes a comprehensive look at the fascinating sensory worlds of animals and was named one of the 10 best books of 2022 by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. For his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, he received the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting, the George Polk Award for science reporting, and the Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for investigative journalism, among other prizes. Yong is a staff writer for The Atlantic and has a Chatham Island black robin named after him. He lives in Washington, D.C.