Vanessa Woods

Vanessa Woods is an award-winning author and journalist. Her book, Bonobo Handshake (June 2010, Gotham Books) about research with bonobos in Congo, won the Thomas Lowell Award. In 2007 her book It’s True; Space Turns you into Spaghetti was named an acclaimed book by the Royal Society. Vanessa is currently a Research Scientist in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University. She received her M.A. in science journalism from the Australian National University. Vanessa has written for various publications including BBC Wildlife, New Scientist, and Travel Africa. In 2003, she won the Australian Science award for journalism. Vanessa’s most recent book, The Genius of Dogs, was written with her husband Brian Hare.