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Burkhard Bilger has contributed to The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and The New York Times, and his work has been anthologized in The Best American Sports Writing 2000. He is a former editor for The Sciences, where he helped earn two National Magazine Awards and six nominations, he is now a senior editor at Discover and series editor of The Best American Science and Nature Writing. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Jennifer Nelson and two children.