Lillian Steenblik Hwang is the associate digital editor for Science News Explores. She is originally from Atlanta, Georgia. Lillian has a bachelor's degree in biology (and a minor in chemistry) from Georgia State University and a master's degree in in science journalism from Boston University. Lillian has worked in a wide variety of roles in both digital and print media. In Lillian's "free time" she loves devouring books, cooking, playing video games, knitting, trying to limit herself to a reasonable number of hobbies, and going on adventures with her husband and two kids.

Lillian's family has a long love for Science News; a magazine she grew up reading and that covered some of her father's inventions. Her father's spiral solar cooker appeared on the cover of the March 28, 1981 issue, in a story penned by Janet Raloff.