Roberta Kwok (she/her)
Jenny JimenezRoberta Kwok is a science writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, NewYorker.com, Nature, New Scientist, Audubon, and other publications. Her book Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes From Scientists’ Adventures into the Unknown, available from Sourcebooks, was chosen by indie booksellers as an Indie Next pick and for the Indies Introduce list of best summer/fall 2026 debuts. She is a former MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow and the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation book grant, and her work has won awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Geophysical Union. She lives in the Seattle area.
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Awards: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Book Grant; MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship; American Association for the Advancement of Science Kavli Science Journalism Award; American Geophysical Union's Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism
Communities: Asian American
Book:
Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown
Science / Medicine / Technology
Sourcebooks
July 2026
ISBN 9781728275970
Hardcover, 368 pages
In Lost in Curiosity, award-winning journalist Roberta Kwok pulls back the curtain on what scientific discovery actually looks like… Not a Eureka moment, but a fraught, often chaotic pursuit of truth.
Chronicling researchers' struggles and hopes in the field and lab, Kwok documents it all: fending off relentless snowfall on a remote Greenland glacier, desperately searching for an elusive frog in the rainforests of Borneo, and scrambling to capture fleeting signals of a faraway moon outside our solar system. These are the untold stories of devoted young scientists and restless minds who are chasing nature's riddles, without knowing what they'll uncover.
Through vivid reporting and moments of unexpected emotion, Kwok reveals the inner lives of researchers who care profoundly about understanding our world and saving what's left of it. From enigmatic fossils and mind-bending physics to the puzzling behavior of wild animals, Lost in Curiosity is a journey through the questions that keep scientists up at night―and the sometimes strange, always illuminating paths they take to answer them. More/less
