Mara Hvistendahl is the author of the forthcoming book The Scientist and The Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage (Riverhead, February 2020).

Her first book, Unnatural Selection, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her longform single And the City Swallowed Them debuted at #1 on Amazon Kindle Singles.

Her articles have appeared in The Atlantic, Popular Science, and WIRED, among other publications.