V.L. ValentineV.L. Valentine is a senior science editor at National Public Radio in Washington, D.C., where she has led award-winning coverage of global disease outbreaks including Ebola and the Zika virus. She has a master's in the history of medicine from Univerity College London and her non-fiction work has been published by NPR, The New York Times, The Smithsonian Channel and Science Magazine. She is the author of two novels, The Plague Letters and Begars Abbey. Read More Read Less