2025 Science + Literature Selection Committee

Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of several acclaimed books, including The Sixth Extinction, which won a Pulitzer Prize and Under a White Sky, which was named one of the ten best books of the year by The Washington Post. She is a two-time National Magazine Award winner and has received a National Academies award, a Heinz Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a grant from the Sloan Foundation, and the BBVA Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication.