Katya Cengel

Katya Cengel has written about everything from retired dancing bears in Bulgaria to the world's largest machine gun shoot in Kentucky. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, National Geographic, Time.com and Salon among other publications. Her University of Nebraska Press book Bluegrass Baseball: A Year in the Minor League Life was a finalist for the 2013 Kentucky Literary Award. Cengel spent eight years reporting for the Louisville Courier-Journal and now reports from around the world and teaches journalism at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Katyacengel.com

Project Proposal: Cengel plans to help educate and inform western readers about the large gap between maternal standards in Africa and the U.S., and what can be done to bridge it. She will focus on retinopathy of prematurity.

Stories

Giant Rats Trained to Sniff Out Tuberculosis in Africa- National Geographic

World Food Day: Still Playing Catchup on Hunger Eradication- Heifer International

Married Off in Mozambique- Al Jazeera America