Kelly Weinersmith

Kelly Weinersmith (née Smith) is an American biologist, writer, and podcaster.

[1] She is a member of the faculty at Rice University in the Department of BioSciences, and an alumni collaborator with the Parasite Ecology Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

[2][3] She is co-author, with her husband Zach Weinersmith, of popular science books Soonish (2017) and A City on Mars (2023).

A parasitologist, Weinersmith is the co-discoverer of Euderus set, commonly known as the crypt-keeper wasp.

[4] Weinersmith is a regular co-host of the Science... sort of podcast.