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Maryn McKenna is a journalist and author and has contributed to National Geographic's germination blog. The magazines, both national and international, that she has wrote for includes: Scientific American, SELF, The Atlantic, Nature, Modern Farmer, China Newsweek, the Gaurdian, Msnbc.com, RageMag.fr, Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. Her writing has been anthologized in the The Best Science Writing Online 2012 and also the Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014. McKenna worked for a decade at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution a newspaper reporter. While working there, she was the only one to work full-time as a US journalist to gain coverage of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Her 2015 "TED TALK", What do we do when antibiotics don't work any more? has over 1.2 million views and was translated in 30 different languages. She starred in Resistance, a 2014 documentary about antibiotics. Her Tumblr Today in Ebolanoia, was cited in bio-defense and medical literature that was documenting public over-reactions to disease break-out threats.

Her books that she has written includes SUPERBUG: The Fatal Menace of MRSA, which got the 2013 June Roth Memorial Book Award and the 2011 Science in Society Award and BEATING BACK THE DEVIL: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service. She is currently working on a new book covering the history of antibiotic use in agriculture which should be published in 2017 by National Geographic books/Penguin Random House.

Her awards include: 2014 Leadership Award from the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics, 2013 Byron H. Waksman Award for Excellence in the Public Communication of Life Sciences, award from the Association of Food Journalists for her work on Modern Farmer, and 2015 AH Boerma Award from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. was shared for The Plate, which was part of National Geographic's "Future of Food" Project.

Maryn McKenna assisted in launching the food site called The Plate.

She also reported from Hurricane Katrina, Southeast Asia, India, Africa and the Artic, and went with CDC teams during the 2001 anthrax attacks at Capitol Hill. She also contributed with a World Health Organization Polio-eradication team in India.