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CoffeyRebecca Coffey is an award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and radio commentator.

Her first book, Unspeakable Truths and Happy Endings: Human Cruelty and the New Trauma Therapy was widely praised and named an Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association’s Choice magazine. Her award-winning television documentaries about health and mental health have been broadcast nationwide; her film “Attacking Anxiety” was twice featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show.

Coffey currently contributes nonfiction science articles to Discover magazine, commentaries to Vermont Public Radio, and short fiction, humor, and essays to various literary magazines. She recently completed a fictional autobiography of Anna Freud, and is working on a collection of literary mashup recipes.