Joshua Roebke is an author, essayist, instructor, and historian of science completing his first book, a social and cultural history of particle physics during the 20^th century, titled The Invisible World. The book-in-progress won the prestigious Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant. He was an editor and writer at an award-winning science and culture magazine for several years. His articles have since appeared in dozens of publications and one of his feature articles appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing. He was a Visiting Scholar in the Office for History of Science and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley and is now an Assistant Professor of Practice in the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. He teaches about science, literature, and writing. He was the founder and creative director of a series of lectures about science by renowned authors, called New Equations. He lives in Los Angeles where he is currently also an Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Southern California and helps in writing and communicating basic research.