Minneapolis-based journalist Emily Sohn is the 2025 recipient of the Sharon Begley Award for Science Reporting and the 2025 Kovler Prize for Trust in Life Science Journalism. Her stories have appeared in National Geographic, Outside, Nature, Scientific American, the New York Times, bioGraphic, the Washington Post, and many other publications. Her longform feature, "The Catch," about pioneering sportswriter Virginia Kraft, won a Webby, a Newhouse School Mirror Award, and was published in the 2024 Year's Best Sports Writing Anthology. She is writing a book about creatures thriving in surprising places, redefining what wilderness is and uncovering unexpected ways we can support the natural world.

Detailed Bio

Emily launched her journalism career as the science writer on an expedition team that traveled around the globe, producing stories, videos, images and interactive content for an educational website viewed by hundreds of thousands of students in classrooms around the world. She has since written dozens of books for kids and thousands of articles for magazines, newspapers and other publications. Stories have won awards from the National Association for Science Writers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society of Environmental Journalists, and others. Most of her work explores ideas in science, health and the environment. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two sons.