About
“A reflective and capacious thinker.”
Jessica Nordell is an award-winning author, poet, and science writer who blends rigorous science with compassionate humanity. Her first book, The End of Bias: A Beginning was shortlisted for the 2022 Columbia Journalism/Lukas Prize for Excellence in Nonfiction, the 2022 NYPL Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the 2021 Royal Society Science Book Prize. The End of Bias was named a Best Book of the Year by the World Economic Forum, Greater Good, AARP, and Inc.
Jessica’s journalism has appeared in New York Times, the Atlantic, the Guardian, and the New Republic, among others, and her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, FIELD, Copper Nickel, and Conduit. Her research collaboration with computer scientists (an agent-based computer simulation of bias) appeared in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World and the New York Times.
Jessica holds degrees in physics from Harvard and poetry from the University of Wisconsin, where she was the Martha Meier Renk Distinguished Graduate Fellow in Poetry. She has been a visiting scholar at MIT, a featured speaker at SXSW and is the recipient of a Gracie Award from American Women in Radio and Television. Jessica is a direct descendent of the last woman to be tried for witchcraft in the state of Connecticut, and a rock drummer.
