Brooke Borel is a journalist, editor, and author based in Brooklyn, New York and the author of The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking, which Library Journal named a best reference book of 2016, and Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World. She’s also written on everything from cannabis pesticides to the history of fake news, but she specializes in stories about how we use technology to shape our environment. Her work has appeared at Popular Science, the Guardian, the Atlantic, BuzzFeed News, FiveThirtyEight, Quanta, and Undark Magazine, among others. She teaches writing at New York University and the Brooklyn Brainery.