Susan Q. Stranahan was a member of the Philadelphia Inquirer team awarded a 1980 Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Three Mile Island accident. For twenty-eight years, she was a reporter primarily covering energy and environmental issues at the Inquirer. She is a co-author (with David Lochbaum, Edwin Lyman, and the Union of Concerned Scientists) of Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster (The New Press). She taught environmental writing at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote Susquehanna: River of Dreams, and is now a freelance writer based in Maine.