Erika is a San Francisco-based reporter for the science journal Nature, where she covers biomedicine and California science. She also blogs at The Last Word on Nothing.

 
Erika has been working as a journalist for more than a decade. She began her career at Newsweek magazine in New York and joined Nature's staff in 2001. Erika teaches in the University of California Santa Cruz Science Communication program. She has also taught in the master's program in science writing at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland; at the Banff Science Communications program in Banff, Canada; and at the Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop in New Mexico. 
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