Cat Bohannon is a scientist and a writer based at Columbia University, where she is a PhD candidate doing research on the evolution of human cognition and narrative. Outside of academia, Cat writes on evolution, neurobiology, and aesthetics. Her essays and poems have appeared in Science Magazine, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Georgia Review, and Poets Against the War, among other venues. She now lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, surrounded by millions of her fellow hominids.
