Katherine Harmon Courage

Katherine Harmon Courage is a contributing editor for Scientific American and an award-winning freelance writer. She is the author of Octopus! The Most Mysterious Creature In the Sea, and her work also has appeared in WIRED, Popular Science, Gourmet, Prevention and in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013. She lives in Longmont, Colorado. Follow her on Twitter or read more on her website www.katherinecourage.com.

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