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Bijal P. Trivedi is the author of Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever, which Bill Gates described on his blog as one of the top books for 2020.

 

Bijal is the former senior science editor for National Geographic, and former science editor for The Conversation. Her stories have appeared in National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, New Scientist, and others.

 

She is the inaugural recipient of the Sharon Begley Science Reporting Award, and a 2025 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Bijal is now working on her next book, A Ghost in the Bloodline.

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