Sushma Subramanian

Sushma Subramanian is the author of “How to Feel: The Science and Meaning of Touch,” a book that explores the scientific, physical, emotional, and cultural aspects of touch and that aims to reconnect readers to what is arguably our most important sense. Her other journalistic writings, which focus on scientific research inquiries that affect our day to day experiences of life, have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Scientific American, Discover, Elle and many others. She also teaches journalism as an associate professor at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia. She has received fellowship support from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center at Duke, the Genetics and Behavior Journalism Fellowship at UVA, the Center for Health Journalism at USC, the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT, the International Women’s Media Foundation and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.