Bio
Judy Foreman is a former Boston Globe health columnist and the author of three works of nonfiction from Oxford University Press. She also published a novel, CRISPR’d, from Skyhorse Publishing in 2022 and a 2023 memoir from She Writes Press entitled Let the More Loving One be Me. Her forthcoming (2026) thriller, The Scallop Plot, is her second novel.
A Wellesley College graduate (Phi Beta Kappa), she spent three years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Brazil and holds a master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She was a Lecturer on Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, a Knight Science Fellow at MIT, and a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University.
She has won more than fifty journalism awards, including a George Foster Peabody Award and a Science in Society Award from the National Association of Science Writers. She lives outside of Boston and is an active, teaching member of the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement. She has been a staunch member of the Back Bay Chorale for 50 years and still races competitively with US Masters Swimming.
