Meehan Crist is a science journalist. Currently, she is the writer in residence in Biological Sciences at Columbia University. She is the host of the live show and podcast "Convergence: A Show About the Future."Crist's work has appeared in the New York Times, the London Review of Books, The Atlantic, The Nation, Scientific American, and Science, and has been collected in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021. She co-edited the collection "What Future," which was published in 2018. Her nonfiction book about the climate crisis, "Is It OK to Have a Child?," is forthcoming.