Elisabeth Eaves, Author at Elisabeth Eaves

TELLING TRUE STORIES

By Elisabeth Eaves | January 7, 2021 |

A typewriter, a notebook, a book, glasses and other items sit on a bare wooden table.

Things I will be teaching in the first half of 2021: longform journalism, memoir, and opinion writing. There are still a few spots left in my January 17th class.

THE PANDEMIC CLOSED BORDERS–AND STIRRED A LONGING FOR HOME

By Elisabeth Eaves | October 1, 2020 |

I wrote an essay about how the pandemic brought back international borders, published today on Wired.

I’M TEACHING A CLASS

By Elisabeth Eaves | May 26, 2020 |

Elisabeth Eaves at her desk with a laptop. There is a bookshelf behind her.

Do you love true stories, well-told? Do you have a longform journalism project you’re eager to launch? Please join me for a two-session June class and we’ll get it off the ground. (More…)

Are we building too many biolabs?

By Elisabeth Eaves | April 3, 2020 |

A billboard that reads "No NBAF Germ Lab."

Answer: Quite possibly. Since my story on biolabs came out in March, I’ve done two interviews, a Twitter chat, and a Reddit Ask Me Anything on the subject. People asked great questions, and I got talk about facts I’d left on the cutting room floor. (More…)

Hot Zone in the Heartland

By Elisabeth Eaves | March 18, 2020 |

A person in a silver hazmat suit, with others in the background.

This morning, the NewYorker.com published my story “The Risks of Building Too Many Bio Labs.” Naturally, I’m pretty excited about finally getting into print with a diaeresis—the thing that looks like an umlaut—on the word “coördinator.”

Seriously, though, this is an important story about biosecurity that I hope you’ll read and share. When I started working on it more than two years ago, I had no idea we’d be publishing during a global pandemic, but here we are. (More…)

Some coronavirus context

By Elisabeth Eaves | March 9, 2020 |

Historical black-and-white photograph of children getting immunized for smallpox.

COVID-19 is far from the first and won’t be the last pandemic we see. To understand what’s going on, we need stories that put the new coronavirus into context. Here are a few of my favorite big-picture pieces. (More…)