HARRIET BROWN began her writing life as a poet. She has written about subjects ranging from Alzheimer’s to job discrimination to eating disorders for the New York Times, Ms., Prevention, Health, O Magazine, and many other publications. She has edited two anthologies and published a number of nonfiction books, including Brave Girl Eating: A Family’s Struggle with Anorexia, which combined science journalism with memoir to call for a new approach to treating eating disorders. Brown grew up near Camden, New Jersey, and has since lived in New York City; Madison, Wisconsin; and now Syracuse, New York, where she’s an associate professor of magazine journalism at the S. I. New-house School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.