Rosanna Xia is an author, documentary filmmaker and environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she specializes in stories about the coast and ocean. Xia was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 for explanatory reporting, and her celebrated book on climate change adaptation, "
California Against the Sea," received the PEN America/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, a gold medal from the California Book Awards, and a special citation from the U.S. Library of Congress, among other honors. She has been praised for her investigative reporting and narrative storytelling, and her coverage of a toxic dumpsite in the deep ocean has been anthologized in the "Best American Science and Nature Writing" series.
Her most recent project, the feature documentary film "Out of Plain Sight," is a cinematic expansion of one of Xia’s most shocking environmental exposés. The film has been featured at the National Academy of Sciences, and it has received numerous film festival honors, including the audience award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and the Jackson Wild Media Award for best investigative film.
