Julie Rehmeyer
Julie Rehmeyer is an award-winning freelance math and science journalist and contributing editor at Discover Magazine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Oprah Magazine, Discover, Science News, Aeon, Wired, and many others. Her memoir, Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand was published by Rodale Press in May 2017. It describes navigating the science and politics of poorly understood illnesses, based on her experience with chronic fatigue syndrome. She has also written several articles on the topic.
Much of Julie’s writing has been about mathematics. Before she became a science writer, she earned a master's in math from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After her time at MIT, Julie became a professor at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. During that time, between 1998 and 2001, she built her own strawbale house. She now lives there with her husband, John, their dog and cat.
