Shannon Stirone
Occupation
  • Author, Journalist
EducationB.A. in Art History
Alma materSonoma State University
Genre
Website
www.shannonstirone.com

Shannon Stirone is an American science journalist and editor, who writes about space travel and the human connection to space exploration. A native of California, she now lives in New York City.[1]

Work

Stirone has written for numerous publications, including The Atlantic,[2] Longreads,[3][4][5] National Geographic,[6] The New York Times,[7] Popular Science,[8] Rolling Stone,[9] Scientific American,[10] Slate,[11] Wired,[12] and the Washington Post.[13] Her work has also been featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing book series, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, in 2019,[14] 2020,[15] and 2021.[16]

Stirone often writes about advances in space technology such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument[17] and profiles the work of scientists in astronomy and related fields like Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin.[18] Notably, Stirone has been a vocal critic of Elon Musk, his plans to colonize Mars,[19][20] and the impacts on the night sky due to his Starlink satellites.[13] Stirone has also criticized the billionaire space race.[21]

References

  1. ↑ Stirone, Shannon (April 11, 2021). "The line of hope".
  2. ↑ "Shannon Stirone". The Atlantic.
  3. ↑ "Shannon Stirone, Welcome to the Center of the Universe, March 2018". Longreads. 15 March 2018.
  4. ↑ "Shannon Stirone, The Hunt for Planet Nine, January 2019". Longreads. 22 January 2019.
  5. ↑ "Shannon Stirone, An Atlas of the Cosmos, October 2020". Longreads. 27 October 2020.
  6. ↑ "Shannon Stirone". National Geographic. 14 September 2018. Archived from the original on June 13, 2023.
  7. ↑ Stirone, Shannon; Chang, Kenneth; Overbye, Dennis (14 September 2020). "Shannon Stirone, Life on Venus? Astronomers See a Signal in Its Clouds, September 14, 2020". The New York Times.
  8. ↑ "Shannon Stirone". Popular Science.
  9. ↑ "Shannon Stirone". Rolling Stone.
  10. ↑ "Shannon Stirone". Scientific American.
  11. ↑ "Shannon Stirone, Why I'm Mourning the Arecibo Telescope, November 23, 2020". Slate.
  12. ↑ "Shannon Stirone". Wired.
  13. 1 2 "Perspective | Elon Musk's satellites threaten to disrupt the night sky for all of us". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  14. ↑ Montgomery, Sy; Green, Jaime (October 2019). The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019 - Table of Contents on Google Books. ISBN 9781328519009.
  15. ↑ Kaku, Michio; Green, Jaime (3 November 2020). The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020 - Table of Contents on Google Books. ISBN 9780358074298.
  16. ↑ Yong, Ed; Green, Jaime (12 October 2021). The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021 - Table of Contents on Google Books. ISBN 9780358400066.
  17. ↑ "Building A Map Of The Universe". Think. 2020-11-18. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  18. ↑ Green, Jaime (2021-08-28). "Future Tense Newsletter: A Planet Is More Than a Spot in the Sky". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  19. ↑ DeCiccio, Emily (2021-03-05). "Dangers await humans on Mars as Elon Musk sets his sights on colonization". CNBC. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  20. ↑ "Science author says it's unrealistic to live on Mars". CNBC. 2021-03-05. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  21. ↑ BIKHCHANDANI, RAGHAV (July 13, 2021). "Branson made it to space, and Bezos will follow suit. But honestly, no one really cares". The Print. Retrieved January 16, 2022.


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