Shayla Love

Shayla Love is a sci­ence journalist based in Brooklyn, NY, who writes about science, health, and the mind. She is a regular contributor to the New Yorker, along with other magazines, and has a master’s degree from Columbia University. Love was previously a staff writer at the Atlantic, Vice, Psyche, and the Guardian. She received the Carter Journalism Institute’s Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award in 2024 and the Ferriss–UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship in 2022.