Gary Stix

GARY STIX is a journalist and author who spent nearly 35 years as a senior editor at Scientific American. He is the co-author of Who Gives a Gigabyte?: A Survival Guide for the Technologically Perplexed, written with his wife, Miriam Lacob.

Stix earned an undergraduate degree in journalism from New York University. Before joining Scientific American in 1990, he spent three years as a science journalist at IEEE Spectrum. At Scientific American, he served as special projects editor overseeing annual single-topic special issues, later focusing on mind and brain topics. A special issue he edited on the subject of time received a National Magazine Award.

Stix retired from Scientific American in 2025.

Gary Stix’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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