About Me

Nicholas St. Fleur is an award-winning science journalist and a children's STEM author based on Long Island, New York.

He is currently a general assignment reporter covering racial health disparities with STAT and an associate editorial director of events crafting captivating live journalism, both virtual and (eventually) in-person. He joined STAT in the fall of 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic as a Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow writing about the intersection of race, medicine, and the life sciences

His reporting on colorectal cancer, which included recording his own colonoscopy, was featured on "Good Morning America." 

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Before joining STAT, St. Fleur was a science reporter and freelancer for The New York Times. He has written more than 350 stories for The Times as a regular contributor to the science desk's Trilobites column. Dubbed a "dead-world correspondent" by his editor there, he has reported on archaeology, paleontology, human evolution, natural history, space, and other curiosities of the cosmos. His other areas of interest include citizen science, K-12 STEM education, and issues of diversity in science.

In March of 2020, he published his first children's book, "Did You Know? Dinosaurs" (DK Publishing and the Smithsonian).

St. Fleur joined The New York Times in 2015 and worked as a staff reporter on the science desk for three years before moving to California. As a freelancer in the Bay Area, he continued to write for the science section, as well as for The New York Times for Kids and other publications.

While at the Times, he was a lead reporter covering the 2017 Great American Eclipse. In 2018 he received the Gene S. Stuart Award from the Society for American Archaeology for the feature story “Medical Tales from a Crypt in Lithuania,” and for his coverage of mummies, pyramids, and shipwrecks. He also received an honorable mention from the D.C. Science Writers Association's 2017 Newsbrief Award for his story "Newly Discovered Gecko Escapes Danger Naked and Alive."

Prior to joining The Times, he reported for The Atlantic, where he covered everything from space probes on comets to protests on the New York City streets. He interned at Scientific American, Science, NPR, and The San Jose Mercury News.

St. Fleur graduated from Cornell University, where he studied biology, minored in communication, and served as the science editor of The Cornell Daily Sun. He completed his graduate work in science communication at the University of California, Santa Cruz. 

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St. Fleur's interest in journalism began in 2010 when a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the city where his parents were once from. He was captivated by the way journalists and medical correspondents covered the death and devastation. It inspired him to pursue a career path that melded medicine and media, and allowed him to unearth the humanity within every science story.

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Email him at scifleur@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter @scifleur