Carolyn Kormann

Carolyn Kormann is an award-winning journalist and author who has covered the environment, climate change, and biodiversity from all over the world. As a staff writer for The New Yorker, she’s published stories about a hurricane-weary meteorologist, survivors of the Maui wildfires, extreme-heat victims, an Oglala Lakota chef, an unusual Bolivian restaurant, lost-species hunters, virus hunters, the pandemic, thawing Siberian permafrost, giant icebergs, climate refugees, Fukushima and the future of nuclear power, plastic pollution, inventors, farmers, striking coal workers, carbon traders, energy politics, a sinking island, a Hollywood trailer director, solar eclipses, honeyguides, swimmers, artists, time, and mules. Previously, she spent years on The New Yorker’s editorial staff, as a web editor and a deputy head of fact-checking. Kormann is the author of the forthcoming book, “How to Be a Bat,” a work of natural history, scientific inquiry, and reportage, which tells the stories of Earth’s only flying mammals, their surprising impact on history, and what they reveal about our future. She’s also written features for New York, Daedalus (the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences), Harper’s, Porter, NPR Music, and VQR, and her work has been included in the Best American Series “Science and Nature Writing” anthologies. She has received a Calderwood Journalism Fellowship from MacDowell, an Abe Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, and a Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism. Her fall undergraduate course, “Reporting the Anthropocene,” will introduce students to the climate crisis and how journalists tell its stories.