Jennie Durant

Jennie Durant is a bee researcher, science writer, and the author of "Bitter Honey: Big Ag's Threat to Bees and the Fight to Save Them" (Island/Princeton University Press, 2026). She has spent more than a decade working with beekeepers, scientists, and policymakers, including time at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and University of California, at both Davis and Berkeley. Her writing has appeared in Literary Hub, Grist, Glamour, HuffPost, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.