Megan is a freelance science writer and journalist based in Durham, North Carolina. She is currently a correspondent for The Scientist magazine, covering daily news for the website and writing feature articles, profiles, and bio-business reports for the print magazine.

Megan received an M.S. from the Graduate Program in Science Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she reported on asteroid-hunting, language scuffles, and the strangeness of light. Before MIT, Megan worked as an educator at the Museum of Science, Boston. There, she wrote and performed presentations on physics, biology and chemistry. She also had a sixth sense for knowing when a kid was about to lick the escalator handrail.

Originally from Upstate New York, Megan has a Bachelor's degree from Boston College in biology and theater (yes, she loves Michael Frayn's Copenhagen). An avid traveler, she spent a summer at the Centre for Animal Rehabilitation and Education in Phalaborwa, South Africa, caring for orphaned baboon infants.

Best of all, she is married to her college sweetheart, Ryan Scudellari, a computer scientist who handily designed this website. They have a lovely little mutt, Dizzy, who has a fondness for the taste of squirrel, and a feline named Scrappy, a fifteen-pound kitten going on full-grown lion.