Marta Zaraska

Marta Zaraska is a French-Polish-Canadian science journalist whose writing has been published in major outlets including the New York Times, Atlantic, Scientific American and New Scientist. She has visited over 80 countries, lived in six of them, and reported from Rwanda, DR Congo, Nicaragua, India, Togo, Cameroon, and many other places. Her first book, Meathooked: The history and science of our 2.5-million year obsession with meat, was published in 2016, and her second, Growing Young: How friendship, optimism and kindness can help you live to 100, came out in 2020. Marta has given a TEDx talk at Bocconi University, Milan, and has featured as an expert in several documentary films. She lives in a tiny French village with her husband and daughter.