About Me

Lina Zeldovich grew up in a dissident family of Soviet scientists, listening to bedtime stories about volcanoes and black holes, and learned English as a second language in her twenties as an immigrant New Yorker. Now an award-winning author, speaker, and Columbia Journalism School alumna, she has published stories in Popular Science, The York Times, Smithsonian, National Geographic, Scientific American and more.  Her previous book, “The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health,” has been optioned for a TV series.

Her new book, “The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost—and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail” will be released from St. Martin’s Press in October 2024. The book unveils the story of the century-old, nearly forgotten antibiotic-free cure for drug-resistant infections that’s finally getting to the American clinic—and people who made it possible against all odds.