Trisha Gura

Areas of Expertise

Journalism; Writing; Psychology; Eating Disorders and Body Image

Email: tgura@brandeis.edu

Current Project

Trisha will write magazine articles and blog pieces for popular press, lecture, and conduct interactive workshops that will allow participants to explore their own biases about age and eating disorders. Trisha will also continue on with her science medical journalism writing in articles such as that in Scientific American Mind about procrastination.

Biography

Trisha Gura is the author of Lying in Weight: the Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women (Harper Collins, May 2007) and contributor to Going Hungry: Writers on Self Denial, Desire and Anorexia (Anchor, 2008). She is a former molecular biologist and reporter for the Chicago Tribune. A Knight Science Journalism Fellow, she currently writes freelance for publications as Science, Nature, and Scientific American Mind, as well as Health, the Yoga Journal and Prevention. She blogs about body image issues for Huffington Post, Eating Disorders.com and on her own website.

Education

Ph.D., Northwestern University

B.A., Xavier University

Representative Publications

Gura, Trisha. Lying in Weight: the Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women. New York: Harper Collins, 2007.

Gura, Trisha. “The Voice” in Going Hungry: Writers on Self-Denial, Desire and Anorexia, edited by Kate Taylor, New York: Anchor Books, 2008.

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