Jaime Green (author)

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Jaime Green
Born(1982-12-12)December 12, 1982
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Jaime Green (born December 12, 1982) is an American science writer. She is known for her debut book The Possibility of Life and for her work since 2019 as series editor of The Best American Science and Nature Writing. [1] She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University and is a lecturer at Smith College. [2]

Green’s first book, The Possibility of Life, was published in 2023 by Hanover Square Press in the US [3] and Duckworth Books in the UK. [4] The book received positive reviews [5] from outlets including The Washington Post [6] , The Wall Street Journal [7] , and The New Republic [8] . At The Washington Post, Annalee Newitz wrote, "A wide-ranging and delightful survey, The Possibility of Life is the kind of book that makes you exclaim 'Wow!' out loud while reading." [6] It was featured on The TODAY Show [9] and in the Science Friday Book Club [10] . The Possibility of Life has been cited in academic publications [11] [12] and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology in 2023. [13]

Green was the romance fiction columnist for the New York Times Book Review from 2018 to 2020, [14] and associate editor of Future Tense at Slate from 2019 to 2023. [15] From 2014-2016 she produced a literary podcast called The Catapult. [16] Her writing has appeared in Slate, [17] The New York Times Magazine, [18] and Aeon. [19]

Green was on Jeopardy! College Championship in 2001. [20]

References

  1. ↑ "Books in series Best American". harpercollins.com. Harper Collins. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  2. ↑ "Jaime Green Lecturer in Writing & Public Discourse". Smith College. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  3. ↑ "The Possibility of Life". harpercollins.com. Harper Collins. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  4. ↑ "duckworthbooks.co.uk". The Possibility of Life. Duckworth Books. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  5. ↑ "The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos". bookmarks.com. Bookmarks. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  6. 1 2 Newitz, Annalee. "In the search for extraterrestrial life, we are the real aliens". washingtonpost.com. The Washington Post. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  7. ↑ Schillace, Brandy. "'The Possibility of Life' Review: Aliens in Our Image". wsj.com. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  8. ↑ Maciak, Phillip. "The Tantalizing, Lonely Search for Alien Life". newrepublic.com. The New Republic. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  9. ↑ "What to read for summer 2023: 6 top book picks". today.com. The Today Show. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  10. ↑ Nicolaou, Elena. "8 books to read this June, according to 2 bestselling authors". today.com. The Today Show. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  11. ↑ Sloss & Fezer. "Intelligence Primer - 3rd Edition" (PDF). p. 17. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  12. ↑ Puranen, Emma. "Exoplanets in Science Fiction" (PDF). The Open University. pp. 28, 46.
  13. ↑ Gelt, Jessica. "Raja Shehadeh, Yiyun Li and Maria Bamford among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists". latimes.com. The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  14. ↑ Alam, Rumaan. "Addicted to Love". www.nytimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  15. ↑ McCay, Nicholas. "Conversations #28 - Jaime Green". eclecticspacewalk.substack.com. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  16. ↑ Capewell, Jillian. "11 Literary Podcasts for the Book Lover On the Go". bustle.com. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  17. ↑ Green, Jaime. "Surely There Must Be Someone Out There In All That Space". slate.com. Slate. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  18. ↑ Green, Jaime. "Befouling the Final Frontier". nytimes.com. The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  19. ↑ Green, Jaime. "Uncertain contact". aeon.com. Aeon. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  20. ↑ Jeopardy 2001-11-07, 2001-11-07, retrieved 2025-06-10
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