Reporter. Writer. Author.

Journalism

• Contributor, The Washington Post

• Former staff writer at The Wall Street Journal with an expertise in health and medicine.

• Public radio journalist and co-founder of NPR and WBUR's CommonHealth blog, a popular national online source for health news, features and analysis.

• Co-creator of the award-winning podcast, “The Checkup," a WBUR/Slate collaboration.

• Reporter, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

• Staff Writer, Willamette Week, Portland, Oregon

Books

• Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide (Santa Fe Writers Project, June 2024)

• Editor/co-author, The Healing Power of Storytelling: Using Personal Narrative to Navigate Illness, Trauma and Loss (North Atlantic Books (2022)

• Co-author, The Doula Guide to Birth (Bantam/Random House, 2009).

Publications

• Essays and articles published in The New York Times; The Washington Post; Vogue.com; New York Magazine’s, “The Cut;” “O” The Oprah Magazine; The Atlantic; Slate, The Huffington Post, and more.

• Additional writing on mental health care, poverty, Covid-19 response and inequities in the U.S. health system.

Education

• Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, MS

• Sarah Lawrence College, BA

• University College, London