Ellen Barber is a writer, editor, and fact checker with more than 20 years’ experience. In addition to writing articles for AnimalBiome, she has reported on real estate in the Southwest for Forbes.com, ghostwritten articles about (human) health and medicine, and edited books and journals in the field of investment management. She has a BA from Yale and an MA in English from the University of Virginia.

Over the years, her household has included a number of cats; she has so far resisted the temptation to adopt a wild burro. For more samples of her work, visit ellenbarber.com.