Jessica Hester
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Jessica Leigh Hester is a science journalist and author of Sewer. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, New Yorker, New York Times, Atlas Obscura, and more. She is also a PhD student at Johns Hopkins University, studying the history of medicine.