Gina Lisa Maranto

Background

Gina Maranto was born on June 23, 1955 in Houston, Texas, United States. Daughter of Joseph Vincent and Margarette (Stubblefield) Maranto.

Education

Gina attended Swarthmore College in 1975-1976. She graduated from Pomona College with a B.A. (cum laude) in 1977. Maranto also received her M.A. in fiction from The Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University in 1980.

Career

Gina worked for Alumni Magazine Consortium, Baltimore, MD, as contributing editor from 1981 to 1982. She was copy editor at PC Tech Journal, Baltimore, in 1983. From 1983 to 1987 she worked as staff writer for Discover at Time, Inc., New York City. Maranto was special contributor to Time-Life Books, Alexandria, VA, between 1987 and 1993, then she became freelance writer, since 1993.

Achievements

• Maranto is a prize-winning science writer who has covered biomedicine, the environment, and Earth sciences at the national level since 1982. She received Oscar in Agriculture from Dekalb Corp. in 1986. She received Science in Society Award from the National Association of Science Writers in 1986.

Works

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  • Quest for Perfection: The Drive to Breed Better Human Beings

Connections

Gina married Mark Derr on September 11, 1982.

Father:

Joseph Vincent Maranto

Mother:

Margarette (Stubblefield) Maranto

Spouse:

Mark Derr