Amanda Little, PhD
The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World Journalist, Author, Professor
Amanda Little is a professor of journalism and science writing at Vanderbilt University. She’s the author of The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World, a five-year adventure into the lands, minds and machines shaping the future of sustainable food. Little's first book was Power Trip: The Story of America's Love Affair with Energy. She has a particular fondness for far-flung and hard-to-stomach reporting that takes her to ultradeep oil rigs, down manholes, into sewage plants, and inside monsoon clouds. Little has written about food, energy, the environment and technology for publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, The New Yorker, Bloomberg Businessweek, Wired, and Rolling Stone. She has interviewed figures ranging from Barack Obama to Lindsey Graham and has been interviewed by journalists from Terri Gross to Fareed Zakaria.