Joseph Caputo

Joseph Caputo

Joseph Caputo is a Book of Odds contributing writer who hopes to learn the chances that a boy from Staten Island, New York, can make it as a professional science reporter. He earned an MS in science journalism in 2009 from Boston University and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, where he concentrated in biology. He's interned with Smithsonian Magazine in Washington, D.C., and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Joseph is currently a freelance writer based in Hyattsville, Maryland, who is happy to take on a variety of assignments.