Starre Julia Vartan

Science & Environment Writer & Author

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  • The Stronger Sex Named a Best Science Book of 2025 – Twice!

    Both Library Journal (the publication for libraries and librarians that helps them pick books AKA the realest readers!) and the Next Big Idea Club named my book, The Stronger Sex as Best Books of 2025. Love that the Library Journal is called “Stellar Selections” as stellar of course means “relating to a star” and…. that’s…

    Starre Vartan

    January 2, 2026
    Awards, Starre’s Work
  • “Female Bodies are Uniquely Flexible—Here’s What Makes Them Strong” for Nat Geo

    Loved writing this piece for National Geographic, which brings together three areas of flexibility (which I argue is an unsung strength) in the female body: bendiness, metabolic, and life-span flexibilities. We all know that generally female bodies are more stretchy, and I detail a bit about why that is, but my favorite section might be…

    Starre Vartan

    December 31, 2025
    Science Writing
    acl injury, adventure, female athletes, female bodies, flexibility, health, metabolism, mountain climbing, science writing, scientist interview, sports, sports science, travel, writing
  • “The Fight to Change Women’s Sports Uniforms” for CNN

    This piece, my first-ever for CNN Sports, came out of a pitch related to my book, The Stronger Sex, that didn’t quite work out in another iteration many months back. So I retooled the focus to put it on the worldwide phenomenon of sports uniforms and how most of them aren’t made for female athlete’s…

    Starre Vartan

    December 20, 2025
    sports
    athlete health, athletics, featured, female athletes, health, olympics, science writing, sport, sports, sports uniforms, sports writing
  • Interview with Me in The Open Notebook

    So happy to end the year on such a positive note with this interview feature in the prestigious The Open Notebook site, an incredible resource for science journalists or any journalist who covers health, animals, environment, etc. I so appreciated that Skyler Ware asked such smart questions about how I reported around the dearth of…

    Starre Vartan

    December 16, 2025
    Science Writing, Starre’s Work
    interview, science writing
  • Incredible Feedback from Stronger Sex Readers!

    Image by Bianca Nogrady, a science journalist and a reader of the book. Hi Ms. Vartan, I just wanted to say that I discovered your new book “The Stronger Sex” in one of my local bookstores over the summer and after reading it I can confidently say that I learned SO much about female bodies…

    Starre Vartan

    December 2, 2025
    Uncategorized
    book-blog, book-review, books, fiction, reading
  • Sign Up for My New FREE Newsletter!

    As my friend Elise said, do you need “more writing about women as humans and not as a political problem to be solved in your inbox right about now?” I got you! I’m starting a newsletter, called Palimpsest of Flesh! Sign up if you are interested in essays about anthropology, art, & anatomy, from my…

    Starre Vartan

    November 24, 2025
    Starre’s Work
    writing, starre vartan, science writing, anthropology, newsletter
  • “Women have supercharged immune systems and we now know why” for New Scientist

    My newest feature (which they pubbed w/out telling me, doh) for New Scientist is all about why and how women’s immune systems are so badass (there’s also a sidebar abt testosterone’s immune-dampening effects too.) It’s important to understand how hormones affect immune function in order to diagnose and create right treatments, including vaccines. Here’s how the piece…

    Starre Vartan

    November 11, 2025
    Uncategorized
    health, immunology, science, science writing, womens health
  • My Next Book: Warriors, Weavers and Wanderers!

    There’s the Publisher’s Weekly announcement for my next book! It will focus on biological anthropology, physiology, and more science to uncover and explore the Real Lives of Our Female Ancestors. So grateful to my editor Kristen Kim at Basic Books/Seal Press (imprint of Hachette). More to come with plenty of updates on my newsletter –…

    Starre Vartan

    November 4, 2025
    Science Writing, Starre’s Work
    author, book, book news, science, science writing
  • Interview with Me on the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC)!

    Well this is exciting! I was so honored to be interviewed on The Science Show with the redoubtable Robyn Williams of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)! Really proud of this one; something about being interviewed by someone with 50 years’ experience in broadcast brought out my best. I met up with Robyn at his home…

    Starre Vartan

    November 2, 2025
    Uncategorized
    science writing, speaking, starre vartan
  • Health Storytelling at Emory University

    I had a wonderful conversation with renown journalist Maryn McKenna, as a part of the Emory University Health Storytelling series. It was livestreamed and is also available to watch in the YouTube video above.

    Starre Vartan

    October 23, 2025
    Starre’s Work, Video
    health writing, journalism, science writing, speaking, starre vartan, video
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