The Best American Science and Nature Writing is a yearly anthology of popular science magazine articles published in the United States. It was started in 2000 and is part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin. Articles are chosen using the same procedure with other titles in the Best American series; the series editor chooses about 100 article candidates, from which the guest editor picks 25 or so for publication; the remaining runner-up articles listed in the appendix. The series is available through Mariner Books, which since 2019 is an imprint of HarperCollins.
Burkhard Bilger was the series editor for 2000 and 2001. Tim Folger was the series editor from 2002 to 2018. Jaime Green has been the series editor since 2019.
Guest editors 2000: David Quammen 2001: Edward O. Wilson 2002: Natalie Angier 2003: Richard Dawkins 2004: Steven Pinker 2005: Jonathan Weiner 2006: Brian Greene 2007: Richard Preston 2008: Jerome Groopman 2009: Elizabeth Kolbert 2010: Freeman Dyson 2011: Mary Roach 2012: Dan Ariely 2013: Siddhartha Mukherjee 2014: Deborah Blum 2015: Rebecca Skloot 2016: Amy Stewart 2017: Hope Jahren 2018: Sam Kean 2019: Sy Montgomery 2020: Michio Kaku 2021: Ed Yong 2022: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 2023: Carl Zimmer 2024: Bill McKibben 2025: Susan Orlean 2026: Randall Munroe
See also The Best American Science Writing
External links Online Index to The Best American Science and Nature Writing Series (2000–2010 only)