Trevor Corson is a bestselling popular-science book author, a magazine journalist and essayist, and an editor. On the path to being a writer, he has also been a restaurant worker, a high-school teacher, and a year-round commercial fisherman. He has since developed and taught writing courses and workshops at many institutions, including Columbia University's graduate school of the arts in New York City, Boston University's graduate program in science and medical journalism, and the University of Helsinki's doctoral programs in science and medicine. He is founder and director of NeuWrite Nordic, a regional branch of the international collaborative science-writing workshop NeuWrite, established by the chair of biological sciences and the graduate writing program at Columbia University.