Ed Yong is a British American science journalist. He received both his BA and his MA in zoology from Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 2002. He did postgraduate study at University College London, where he received an MPhil in biochemistry. In 2014, he joined The Atlantic, where he currently works as a science reporter. He has also written for an array of magazines and newspapers, including Nature, The New Yorker, Wired, The New York Times, Scientific American, and National Geographic.

Yong focuses on making science accessible to the public, both in his reporting and in his two monographs, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life and An Immense World. He received a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2021 for a series on COVID-19. He is an award-winning science blogger who has been recognized for his consistent engagement with readers and other science writers through social media. He has also been a finalist twice for a National Magazine Award for public service. His 2014 Ted Talk “Zombie Roaches and Other Parasite Tales” had almost two million views in spring 2023. An Immense World won numerous awards and nominations, including the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and appeared on the best books lists of The New Yorker, Time, The Guardian, The Economist, Kirkus, and Esquire in 2022.