Justine E. Hausheer
science writing & photography
Justine is an award-winning science writer, editor, and photographer based on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. Her first book, The Vanishing Wild, will be released in May 2026 from NewSouth Publishing.
Justine has a master’s in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting from New York University. She works as a reporter and editor for Cool Green Science, telling the stories behind the science at The Nature Conservancy.
“I’m listening for a ghost. Bright green and yellow, with a tail striped like a bumble-bee, it crouches in wait as the sun sinks below the escarpment. On dark, it will whistle out into the night before taking wing. For this ghost is a bird. A bird more myth than real, a legend lost in Australia’s vast arid interior. Lost, and then found again not far from where I sit on a rocky rise, staring south over a sea of spinifex. The night parrot…”
