Nan Sanders Pokerwinski is the author of The Utterly Unacceptable Atrocity of Isabelle Marsden (She Writes Press, 2026) and Mango Rash: Coming of Age in the Land of Frangipani and Fanta (Behler, 2019).
Previously, she held the position of science writer at the Detroit Free Press for more than a decade, after which she worked as a science writer for the University of Michigan News Service for fourteen years. In her freelance work, she has been a contributing editor to Health and Alternative Medicine magazines and has written for More, Fitness, Dallas Morning News, and other print and online publications. (Her journalistic work carries the byline Nancy Ross-Flanigan).
A national engineering society once awarded her first place in their writing contest for a piece on potholes. Her work has garnered other awards—from groups as diverse as the Magazine Association of the Southeast and the American Motorcyclist Association—and a Pulitzer nomination.
