S. Holly Stocking teaches journalism at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. Her teaching, research and creative activities include magazine reporting and literary journalism, media coverage of science, technology and the environment, with particular interest in media constructions of scientific ignorance and "mindful journalism." The author or four books, she has been a reporter for the "Los Angeles Times", The Associated Press, the "Bloomington Herald-Telephone," the "Minneapolis Tribune" and other newspapers and magazines. She holds an undergraduate and masters from Northwestern University and her Ph.D., in mass communications, from Indiana University.