Rachel Nuwer is an independent American journalist and author of the 2018 nonfiction bookPoached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking (Da Capo Press). She has covered the issue of poaching from the perspectives of criminals, activists and science for years in prominent publications, including theSmithsonian,BBC Future,The New York Times, andNational Geographic.[1]
Nuwer grew up inMississippi and studied biology atLoyola University New Orleans, where she researchedMekong River fish.[2] She earned a master's degree inecology at theUniversity of East Anglia and attendedNew York University's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program.[3] Her master's thesis for her East Anglia degree was published by theCambridge University Press.[2]
Nuwer says that her education in biology helped shape her career.[3]
Nuwer has written forSmithsonian,BBC Future,The New York Times, andNational Geographic.[1] She is well known for working under cover to accessblack markets for wildlife.[4] Nuwer's 2023 book,I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World, examines the historical, cultural and scientific aspects ofMDMA, commonly known as Ecstasy or Molly. A review of the book inThe Washington Post said that Nuwer's "sober assessment of MDMA's promise and limitations, written in incisive but generous prose, steers away from the quackery and sentimentality that pervade the field of psychedelic research."[5]
Nuwer won the Abe Fellowship for Journalists in 2017.[6]
Her bookPoached won theAmerican Society of Journalists and Authors general non-fiction book award,[7] a Nautilus Book Award,[8] and the Santa Monica Public Library Green Prize for Sustainable Literature.[9]
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