Jason Dearen is an award-winning correspondent and features writer for The Associated Press and was a 2018-19 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. His work appears regularly in hundreds of newspapers and websites including the Washington Post, The Guardian, The Seattle Times, Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune and The New York Times. He has twice been nominated by The AP for the Pulitzer Prize. Dearen grew up in California, attended the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and is based in Gainesville, Florida, with his wife, a law professor.