Joshua Sokol is a freelance science journalist based in his hometown of Raleigh, NC. After majoring in English Literature and Astronomy at Swarthmore College, he worked as a data analyst for the Hubble Space Telescope. He then attended MIT’s graduate program in science writing from 2014-2015, where he was a CASW Taylor-Blakeslee Fellow.
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Since then, his stories have appeared in Astronomy, The Atlantic, Audubon, The Boston Globe, ESPN the Magazine, Hakai, Mosaic, National Geographic, New Scientist, The New York Times, NOVA Next, Quanta, Science, Scientific American, Smithsonian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Wired.

Two of Joshua's pieces are reprinted in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020, four more of his stories have been listed in the "Other Notables" section of the series, and one of his pieces is reprinted in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2021.‍