"The Bamboo Solution", took the American Engineering Societies Engineering Journalism Award in the general interest magazine category in 1996. In 1995, Roach's article "How to Win at Germ Warfare" was a National Magazine Award finalist. Works Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003, W. W. Norton & Company; ) Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005, W. W. Norton & Company; ) Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (2008, W. W. Norton & Company; ) Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (2010, W. W. Norton & Company; ) The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 (editor, 2010, Mariner Books) Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (2013, W. W. Norton & Company; ) My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places (2013, Penguin Publishing; ) Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (2016, W. W. Norton & Company; ) Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (2021, W. W. Norton & Company; ) References External links Interview by Adam Savage 1959 births Living people People from Hanover, New Hampshire American science writers American medical writers Women medical writers American magazine writers American humorists Wesleyan University alumni American skeptics Mars One 21st-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American women writers Women science writers American women non-fiction writers Women humorists Writers from New Hampshire