About Jennie Erin Smith

Jennie Erin Smith is a nonfiction author and independent science reporter based in Medellin, Colombia. A 1995 graduate of Columbia University in New York, she is the author of the nonfiction book Stolen World (2011), about global reptile trafficking. Her reporting has appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times, Undark, and several other publications. She also writes regularly for MDEdge, a group of specialist clinical newspapers that are part of WedMD.