Clay Farris Naff is a science writer with a special interest in the rational reconciliation of religions with science. An award-winning journalist and author, he has been a science-and-religion columnist for the Metanexus Institute, an editor for Greenhaven Press, and a freelance writer for various publications, including most recently Earth magazine and The Humanist. He serves as executive director of the Lincoln Literacy Council.

Career Highlights:

1985: Became science and engineering reporter for University of Pennsylvania News Bureau

1987: Moved to Japan as Tokyo correspondent for American Banker newspaper.

1990: HIred as reporter for the Associated Press

1991: Became chief Tokyo correspondent for United Press International. Also begin freelance work for National Public Radio.

1994: About Face, first trade book published, wins National Endowment for Humanities fellowship to Harvard..

1996: Hired as News and Public Affairs Director of KZUM, community public radio in Lincoln, Nebraska.

1997 Awarded the Raglin Media Prize for story on young smoker who contracted lung cancer.

1998 Awarded Associated Press Nebraska Broadcasters Association 1st Prize for Public Affairs for radio series callled "The HIV Diaries," featuring the life of a young man trying to stave off AIDS.

2000 Begin writing and editing for Greenhaven Press, an imprint of the Gale Group.

2002 Hired as monthly science-and-religion columnist for The Global Spiral online journal.

2006 Accept position as executive director of Lincoln Literacy Council.