Sarah Elizabeth Richards is a freelance health and science journalist who has written for National Geographic, WIRED, Men’s Health, Women’s Health, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. Her long-form WIRED feature on a prostate cancer survivor’s hunt to find the DNA evidence that could save his life won the 2023 Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism from the American Association for Cancer Research. She is the author of "Motherhood, Rescheduled: The New Frontier of Egg Freezing and the Women Who Tried It," a narrative non-fiction book that chronicles the lives of four women who attempt to preserve their fertility by freezing their eggs. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of California at Berkeley and holds master's degrees from the Graduate School of Journalism and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. 

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