Christie Aschwanden is the author of
Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn From the Strange Science of Recovery and co-host of
Emerging Form, a podcast about the creative process. She’s the former lead science writer at FiveThirtyEight and was previously a health columnist for
The Washington Post. Christie is a frequent contributor to
The New York Times. She’s also been a contributing editor for
Runner’s World and a contributing writer for
Bicycling. Her work appears in dozens of publications, including
Discover, Slate, Consumer Reports, New Scientist, More, Men’s Journal, Mother Jones, NPR.org, Smithsonian and
O, the Oprah Magazine.