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Ali Benjamin writes. She also chases children, drinks coffee, runs some, knits a little, walks dogs, visits farm stands, and serves scrambled eggs for dinner far too often. Once in a while, she enjoys a mojito.

Favorite writing topics have been the history of life on earth, the transit of Venus across the sun, kale, donkeys, gardens, schools that get it right, bees, smart responses to hunger, and the honkin’ 17-mile supercollider that lies deep beneath the Franco-Swiss border.

Ali is the co-author of The Cleaner Plate Club: Raising Healthy Eaters One Meal at a Time. Which is a pretty good book. Seriously. You don’t have to take her word for it, either. Check out the reviews here. She has also written for the Boston Globe Magazine, Martha Stewart’s Whole Living online, and recently wrapped up work on a prime-time television special, Growing Hope Against Hunger, with Sesame Workshop (aired October 2011 on PBS). She is a member of New England Science Writers, and is currently working on a book about jellyfish.