Peter Brannen
Author and contributing writer at The Atlantic
Peter Brannen is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of The Ends of the World, about the biggest mass extinctions in Earth’s history. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other publications.
Presentations
Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University Division of Science, the Harvard Library, and Long Now Boston welcome Peter Brannen for a discussion of his new book. He will be joined in conversation by Phoebe Cohen—paleontologist, science communicator, and Professor of Geosciences at Williams College.
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Publications
Biography
Peter Brannen is an award-winning science journalist whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wired, Aeon, The Boston Globe, Slate and The Guardian among other publications. Peter was a 2023 visiting scholar at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, and is an affiliate at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He was formerly a 2018 Scripps Fellow at CU-Boulder, a 2015 journalist-in-residence at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center at Duke University, and a 2011 Ocean Science Journalism Fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, MA. His essays have been featured in the Best American Science and Nature Writing series and in The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg.
