Wayt Gibbs – Editor

I am a science journalist and book editor with more than 35 years of experience reporting, writing, editing, and publishing on topics in science, engineering, and technology. I was an editor and senior writer at Scientific American magazine from 1992 to 2006. I am currently a contributing editor for IEEE Spectrum and Anthropocene magazine, and I also write and edit for Science, Nature, Discover, Wired, Scientific American, and others. My projects have included investigative and enterprise journalism, column writing, editing magazine special issues, and running a small but highly profitable publishing company and editorial team, with oversight of dozens of staff and freelance contributors, to produce the award-winning Modernist Cuisine books. I create articles, videos, podcasts, and high-impact presentations, both under my own byline and for C-level executives in science and tech. I have contributed to documentaries that have aired on Netflix, NOVA, the BBC, Discovery, the History Channel, and BloombergTV. I worked with renowned scientists on the book The Earth and I to ensure scientific accuracy and to help design the conceptual illustrations. I have worked with literary agents, authored multiple book proposals, and overseen foreign rights sales.

I generally work with authors who have published peer-reviewed research or held executive positions in the research or technology sectors. I help them decide how to publish their work; develop query letters for agents; develop book proposals; and develop book outlines, manuscripts, and designs.