Rebecca Coffey
Rebecca Coffey is science journalist, a novelist, and a humorist with broad national recognition. She has contributed to Scientific American and Discover magazines, PsychologyToday.com, Vermont Public Radio, The New York Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times, DAME, and many other newspaper, magazine, radio, and internet outlets. Her humor has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and a host of literary websites. Booklist called her highly-praised, serio-comic novel Hysterical: Anna Freud’s Story “avidly researched, shrewd, and unnerving” as well as “complexly entertaining, sexually dramatic, [and] acidly funny.” Elissa Bassist, Humor and Women’s Literature Editor at The Rumpus called Nietzsche’s Angel Food Cake "hilarious, smart, intensely literary, and delicious in every way." Coffey is the author of six books. • Unspeakable Truths and Happy Endings: Human Cruelty and the New Trauma Therapy (Sidran, 1998). Journalism. • Murders Most Foul: And the School Shooters in Our Midst (Vook, 2012). Journalism. • Nietzsche’s Angel Food Cake: And Other Recipes for the Intellectually Famished (Beck and Branch, 2013). Humor. • Hysterical: Anna Freud’s Story (She Writes Press, 2014). Fiction. • Science and Lust (Beck and Branch, 2018) • Beyond Primates: New Essays on Darwin and Evolution (Beck & Branch, 2023) Journalism Awards Science Documentaries Red Ribbon at the American Film and Video Festival for Epilepsy: Life Goes On. Red Ribbon at the American Film and Video Festival for Cause of Death: Influenza. Red Ribbon at the American Film and Video Festival for Attacking Anxiety. CINE Golden Eagle at the American Film and Video Festival for Attacking Anxiety. Silver Plaque at The Columbus International Film Festival for Attacking Anxiety. Books Choice Magazine (a publication of the American Library Association): Outstanding Academic Book for Unspeakable Truths and Happy Endings: Human Cruelty and the New Trauma Therapy. The GLBT Roundtable of The American Library Association: Over the Rainbow Book for Hysterical: Anna Freud’s Story. Radio Vermont Associated Press Award given to Vermont Public Radio for a 9/11 commentary series to which Coffey contributed two commentaries.
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