Harriet Brown is a professor of magazine, news & digital journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in Syracuse, New York. She has an undergraduate degree in English from Lafayette College and an MFA in creative writing/poetry from Brooklyn College. She writes about health, science, medicine, and psychology for publications including the New York Times, the Guardian, the Atlantic, Slate, MIT Technology Review, Prevention, and many others. Her work has often focused on food, eating, and body image issues, and on the ways families navigate trauma. Her books include Shadow Daughter: A Memoir of Estrangement;  Brave Girl Eating: A Family’s Struggle with Anorexia; and Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight—and What We Can Do About It. Awards include several residencies at Yaddo and the John F Murray Strategic Communication for the Public Good Award.

She was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to teach a class in science communication at the University of Haifa, and to continue reporting for a new book project on how cannabis is helping medically fragile children and their families. More about her work can be found at www.harrietbrown.com.