Rosanna Xia

Rosanna Xia is an environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she specializes in stories about the coast and ocean. Her book, California Against the Sea, received the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and a gold medal from the California Book Awards, and her reporting is the subject of a forthcoming feature documentary, Out of Plain Sight. Xia was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020, and her coverage of a toxic dumpsite in the deep ocean has been anthologized in the Best American Science and Nature Writing series.