Laurie Edwards is a nonfiction writer and author of two books on chronic illness: Life Disrupted (Walker, 2008), a Library Journal Best Consumer Health Book, and In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America (Walker, 2013), a Booklist Editor’s Choice for 2013. Publisher’s Weekly called her “wise, generous, and a terrific storyteller.” Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, NPR, and many other outlets, and she has appeared on Fresh Air with Terry Gross and The Today Show with Maria Shriver to discuss gender and pain.

She is a Teaching Professor in the Writing Program at Northeastern University, as well as a nonfiction editor and essay consultant.