Shannon Stirone

Shannon Stirone is the Managing Editor at Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC. She has been an American science journalist and editor, who writes about space travel and the human connection to space exploration. A native of California, she now lives in New York City.

Work
Stirone has written for numerous publications, including The Atlantic, Longreads,  National Geographic, The New York Times, Popular Science, Rolling Stone, Scientific American, Slate, Wired, and the Washington Post. Her work has also been featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing book series, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, in 2019, 2020, and 2021.

Stirone often writes about advances in space technology such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument and profiles the work of scientists in astronomy and related fields like Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin. Notably, Stirone has been a vocal critic of Elon Musk, his plans to colonize Mars, and the impacts on the night sky due to his Starlink satellites. Stirone has also criticized the billionaire space race.