Edna Bonhomme is a critic, journalist, and historian. She is the author of A History of the World in Six Plagues (Eingesperrt und ausgegrenzt), which was shortlisted for the 2025 Best Science Book Prize in Austria. Bonhomme is a 2026 Finalist for the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, which is granted by the National Book Critics' Circle. Her criticism, literary essays, book reviews, and opinion pieces on health, reproduction, and culture have been published in Al Jazeera, The Atlantic, The Baffler, Esquire, Frieze, The Guardian, London Review of Books, The Nation, The New York Review of Books and more. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Max Planck Institute for History of Science, the Ludwig Maximilian Universität, the Camargo Foundation, Baldwin for the Arts, the Robert Silvers Foundation, and the Andy Warhol Foundation. She’s a Lecturer at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. Bonhomme is the co-editor of After Sex, a literary anthology about reproductive justice. Her forthcoming book, Tending to Our Wounds, which will be published in July 2026.