Trevor Corson is a bestselling popular-science author, a magazine journalist and essayist, and an editor who has taught writing at Columbia University's graduate School of the Arts in New York City and Boston University's graduate Program in Science and Medical Journalism. He has a master-of-arts degree in writing and a graduate certificate in philosophy of biology, both from Columbia University. He is founder and director of NeuWrite Nordic, a branch of the international collaborative science-writing workshop NeuWrite, established by the chair of biological sciences and the graduate writing program at Columbia University.