Lee Simmons

Lee Simmons first joined WIRED as a freelancer in 2004. A native of Hawaii, he previously worked for The Economist, Harvard University Press, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He also taught at Harvard, where he once quite nearly earned a PhD in economics. His writing for WIRED and other magazines has been widely translated and has appeared in several best-of anthologies. He is also an unabashed thespian.