Angela Saini is an award-winning journalist based in New York and Boston, and an Assistant Professor of Science Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her writing has appeared in the Financial Times, National Geographic, Foreign Policy, the Times Literary Supplement, and Wired, and she has presented numerous radio and television documentaries for the BBC. An Undark magazine series on race science she co-edited was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in 2023.

Her latest book The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule was published in spring 2023, and was a finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. Her previous two books Superior: The Return of Race Science and Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong were bestsellers and sit on university reading lists across the world. Together, her books have been translated into 18 languages.

Angela's fifth book, Other: Race, Sex, and the Hidden Harms of Human Categories, will be published by Grove Atlantic (US) and Fourth Estate (UK & Commonwealth) in January 2027. If you are in the US, you can pre-order your copy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, or ask your local independent bookstore. In the UK, you can pre-order from here.

Angela's literary agent is Peter Tallack at Curious Minds. For speaking engagements and media requests outside North America, please contact Vicki McIvor at Take Three Management. For speaking engagements in North America, please contact Ariel Lewiton at Art & Craft. For book-related enquiries in the US please contact Justina Batchelor at publicity@groveatlantic.com.

Please note that Angela is not on Twitter or Facebook, and keeps a minimal presence on Instagram and LinkedIn. If you would like to contact her directly, it's best to email at angela.d.saini@gmail.com.

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