Edna Bonhomme is a historian of science, culture writer, and journalist based in Berlin, Germany. She writes feature articles, creative nonfiction, and book reviews. She is a contributing writer for Frieze Magazine. Her writing has appeared in Al Jazeera, The Atlantic, The Baffler, Esquire, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The Nation, Washington Post, and other publications.

A graduate of Princeton University’s Ph.D. program in History of Science, she held awards and fellowships from the Max Planck Institute for History of Science, the Ludwig Maximilian Universität, the Camargo Foundation, Baldwin for the Arts, the Robert Silvers Foundation, and the Andy Warhol Foundation. Edna’s book, A History of the World in Six Plagues (Simon & Schuster, US; Dialogue Books, UK; Ullstein Books, Germany), is forthcoming. Edna is the co-editor of After Sex (Silver Press), an anthology about reproductive justice. She is represented by Ian Bonaparte at Janklow & Nesbit. For literary queries, please contact him directly.