She trained in psychiatry at Mount Sinai and has worked as Chief of Mental Health Clearances at the U.S. State Department and as Unit Chief of the Women’s Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Westchester Division. She has an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins, a BA in English from Yale and has written for The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Psychology Today, Salon, The American Scholar, and more. She is a 2016 Notable Essayist in Best American Essays.