Author Profile
Pippa Wysong is a freelance medical, science and children’s writer, active for over 30 years. Het byline appears in diverse Canadian publications including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Scientific American, the Medical Post, EuroTimes (a European ophthalmology newspaper), Medscape, VICE, wrote environment features for Hakai magazine and more. She was on staff at the Medical Post for all of the 1990s during which time she covered over 200 medical conferences and collected many air mile points.
For 20 years, she wrote the Ask Pippa science column for the Toronto Star’s kids’ page. Some examples appear on her outdated and gaudily coloured AskPippa website.
Pippa has won several awards including 3 Kenneth R. Wilson Journalism Awards, and a Science in Society journalism award. She does volunteer work in the area of science communication and public outreach, and for this was presented with a Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal by the Royal Canadian Institute for Science.
She also does vaccine education outreach and in 2013 created the Quarantine Tent, a grassroots event taken to festivals to discuss infectious diseases in pre-vaccine eras. Volunteer medical and public health students became time-travellers from pre-vaccine eras, wore historical garb and interacted with passersby at street fairs.
She had a science fiction story published, and is currently attempting to write plays. She is a night owl, mildly sarcastic, and prone to puns.
