Mara Hvistendahl

Mara Hvistendahl is a writer whose work has appeared in Science, Harper’s, the Financial Times magazine, The New Republic, Popular Science, Scientific American, the Los Angeles Times, and The Globe and Mail, among other publications.

 

After receiving a B.A. from Swarthmore College in comparative literature and Chinese, Mara attended Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism on a Kurt Schork Scholarship. Since 2004, she has been based in Shanghai, where she teaches at Fudan University School of Journalism. Proficient in Mandarin and Spanish, she has reported from the Tibetan plateau, the Amazon rainforest, and rural Texas.

 

To learn more about Mara Hvistendahl, visit http://www.marahvistendahl.com/

 

Read articles by Mara Hvistendahl, including "Half the Sky: How China’s Gender Imbalance Threatens Its Future", published in Virginia Quarterly Review.

 

Published work

THE X-Y PROBLEM: Technology, Choice, and Gender to Order (forthcoming from Public Affairs)

 

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