Amanda Schaffer is a science writer focusing on medicine and health. She has written for the New Yorker about vaccines and epidemic disease, how our bones influence our minds, and how Jehovah's Witnesses are changing medicine. Formerly a science and medical columnist for Slate, she has also contributed to the New York Times science section, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, Neo.Life, and Bookforum. She is a contributing editor at Technology Review and a mentor-editor for the Op-Ed Project, which works to increase women's presence in public commentary.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Amanda Schaffer
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2002
Studios
Wood
Amanda Schaffer worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…