Lisa Belkin

Lisa Belkin has spent a career covering American social issues, as a daily journalist, a magazine writer, and a book author. During nearly two decades at The New York Times, she was variously a national correspondent (based in Houston), a medical reporter, a Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine, and the creator of the Life’s Work column and the Motherlode blog. She has spent nearly a decade in the digital realm, in senior positions at HuffPost and Yahoo News.

Belkin is the author of four non-fiction books -- Life’s Work, Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom, First, Do No Harm, Genealogy of a Murder, and Show Me A Hero, which was made into an HBO miniseries of the same name and nominated for, among other things: a Golden Globe, Satellite, Critics Choice and NAACP Image Award for acting; a Writers Guild and Scripter Award for best writing; and a Critics Choice and Satellite award for best miniseries.

In other media, Belkin was the host of Life’s Work with Lisa Belkin, on XM Radio, as well as a regular contributor to Public Radio’s The Takeaway and NBC’s Today Show. A graduate of Princeton University, she has returned there as a visiting professor in the Humanities Council, teaching narrative non-fiction as an instrument of social change, and as an advisor to The Daily Princetonian. Since 2015 she has taught reporting, writing, and narrative non-fiction at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.