Jessica Seigel is an award-winning magazine writer, radio commentator, and editor who has excavated ancient bones at the real Armageddon, generated electricity by bicycle, and run with wild horses—all to get the story.
Her features on culture, health/science, travel, and celebrity have run in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Washington Post, The Independent, Knowable Magazine, Nautilus, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, BBC, National Geographic Traveler, Los Angeles Magazine, Reader's Digest, Salon, and Village Voice. Critics at the Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and New York Post praise her work as "pointed," "especially enjoyable," and "engrossing...real as if you were there.”
Featured Stories
Why You Can’t Spot a Liar Just by Looking
Psychologists say you can’t confirm deception by the way a person acts—but experts are zeroing in other methods that might actually work. Read More
War on Journalists
The attacks on journalists in the US are unlike anything I’ve ever seen in my career. Read More
America Is Getting the Science of Sun Exposure Wrong
These days you’ll find Vandana Verma sitting outside at lunch wearing no hat, no sunscreen, her arms and legs exposed because her doctor told her to. Read More
In the Land of Wild Horses
After hours of trotting on horseback through southwestern Wyoming's high plains, my legs are painfully banged up, my mind blown from the relentless expanse of sage and dust. Read More
