Jessica Camille Aguirre
Jessica Camille Aguirre is an award-winning journalist and magazine writer from California. She is a regular contributor to Vanity Fair, and her work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Wired, The New York Review of Books, n+1 and many others. It has also been featured by Longform and Longreads, and included as a notable work in the Best American Sports Writing 2019 and the Best American Science & Nature Writing 2019 and 2020. Jessica is a fellow at the McGraw Center for Business Journalism and a Visiting Scholar at the New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. In 2018, she received the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award.
She has also been a Fulbright fellow and a grantee of the International Women’s Media Foundation, the International Reporting Project, the Kaiser Media Fellowship in Health Reporting and the International Center for Journalists Climate Change Journalism Fellowship. In 2020, she was the Margot Adler investigative journalism fellow at the Under the Volcano literary workshop.
As a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow, Jessica will be working on a book about attempts to recreate the Earth’s ecosystem, with an emphasis on Biosphere 2 and space habitats. It also examines how an understanding of the Earth as a discrete ecosystem emerged.