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For more than 25 years, I’ve been writing and reporting on a range of health topics— from injustice in our health care system and women’s health, to the cost of medicines and emerging brain science (as well as a smattering of stories on sex and kale). Currently, I contribute stories about mental health to The Washington Post. I’ve worked as a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal in Seattle, New York and Boston; and a public radio reporter for WBUR. My memoir, about rebuilding family life after my husband’s suicide, was named a winner of the 2022 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards! The book, Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide, was published in June 2024 and you can order it now. Read essays and articles related to the book: linktr.ee/rachelzimmerman Take a look at my latest essays in The Washington Post here and here and in The Huffington Post here. Here are a few more of my WaPo articles, including, how millennials have transformed grief, the long shadow of intergenerational trauma, ketamine for depression and anxiety screening for adults. Check out my pieces, “Holding On,” a Tiny Love Story in the NYT and “Love Alone Can’t Prevent Suicide,” at Cognoscenti. I just did an interview on food and grief for the new podcast, Herstory on a Plate. Take a listen… Also, you can order the book I co-wrote with Dr. Annie Brewster, The Healing Power of Storytelling: Using Personal Narrative to Navigate Illness, Trauma and Loss. I live in Cambridge, Mass. with my husband, Moungi Bawendi, my daughters (the older one and my stepdaughter are in college; the younger one’s in high school) and a dog called Phoebe. Running and yoga keep me sane-ish. 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