Katie L. Burke is an award-winning features editor and science journalist. She is senior contributing editor at American Scientist and the environmental health beat leader for the Association of Health Care Journalists.
Illustration by Julia Bollinger
Selected Writing
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2019 Editor's Letter for Special Issue
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Fixing Broken Biological Clocks
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The Giant Tadpole That Never Got Its Legs
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Scientists in the Wake of the Hurricanes
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What Might Happen to COVID-19 Over Time?
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Flint Water Crisis Yields Hard Lessons in Science and Ethics
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Ancient Fire Scars of the Petrified Forest
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![A rare 18th century book containing nature prints is displayed at the Herbaruim library at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London]()
Book Review: The Hidden Extinction Crisis of Natural Historians
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![A headshot of aerosol engineer Linsey Marr]()
Changing Policies on COVID-19 Transmission (2023 Apex Award winner)
Selected Editing
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![Female wood duck leaves nest box]()
Putting Eggs in Many Baskets (American Scientist's First Digital Feature, EXCEL and Apex Awards winner)
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![John James Audubon produced this lithograph of a female mountain lion and her cub in the 1840s after an expedition to the Missouri River.]()
America's Cat Is on the Comeback (EXCEL Award-winning feature)
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![This 1926 public health campaign poster, titled “Namo Great Buddha Policeman,” was distributed by the Japanese colonial government. It shows a policeman holding prayer beads in his left hand and a sword in his right.]()
The History of Vaccine Uptake in Taiwan (Popular Article of 2022)
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![This 1736 painting by Carle van Loo, Bear Hunt, uses violent and warlike imagery to depict attitudes toward large predators at the time.]()
A Landscape of Fear of Humans (Popular Article of 2022)
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![engineers from the StEER (Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance) Network assess damage from Hurricane Dorian.]()
A New System for Disaster Research
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![The Sun sets over rice paddies and the embankment that separates local farms from the Kapotaksma River in Bangladesh. Nearly two-thirds of the country’s area is less than five meters above sea level.]()
A Delta in Peril
Editing Services
Developmental editing & writing coaching for science content:
Six-month book coaching package to crank out that book
Writing coaching to produce a feature or personal essay aimed at getting a big byline
Developmental editing for books, features, op-eds, and news stories
Meet with Katie
15-Minute Discovery Call — Free
Let’s meet, discuss your needs and my editorial process, and decide how to proceed.
50-Minute Writing Coaching — $125
Please set up a 15-minute call with me first before booking writing coaching. Before the call, I will ask you to send a copy of the manuscript, outline, book proposal, or story plan you are working on.