About
Maryn McKenna
McKenna has covered medicine, health and science for 21 years. The first 18 were as a newspaper reporter, at the Rockford Register-Star; theCincinnati Enquirer, where her stories about cancers around a nuclear-weapons plant helped local citizens win a lawsuit against the federal government; the Boston Herald, where her team's stories about illnesses among veterans prompted the first Congressional hearings on Gulf War Syndrome; and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she covered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, embedded with their disease-detective corps, and wrote a book about them (Beating Back the Devil [2004]). For the past three years, McKenna has been a freelancer: She writes for Self, Health, More, a medical journal and an infectious-disease news Web site and publishes a blog on MRSA. Her second book, SUPERBUG, was just published by Free Press. She has won a number of awards and been a fellow with CASE, the Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families, the Knight-Wallace Fellows at University of Michigan, the East-West Center, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Dart Center on Journalism and Trauma.