Zöe Schlanger

Writer and Author of The Light Eaters

Zoë Schlanger is a staff writer at the Atlantic, where she covers climate change. She is the author of The Light Eaters (HarperCollins, 2024), a New York Times bestselling book about the world of plant behavior and intelligence research. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and on NPR, among other major outlets. She was the recipient of a 2017 National Association of Science Writers reporting award for coverage of air pollution in Detroit and a finalist for the 2019 Livingston Award for a series on water politics at the Texas-Mexico border. She lives in New York.