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Melanie D.G. Kaplan

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Melanie D.G. Kaplan is an award-winning independent journalist whose travel and science writing has appeared in The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and National Parks magazine. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School, a former MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow, and a third-generation native of Washington, DC. Kaplan has lived most of her life with hounds. 

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