Rachel Zimmerman, an award-winning journalist, has written about health and medicine for more than two decades. She currently contributes stories on mental health to The Washington Post and previously worked as a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and a health reporter for WBUR, Boston’s public radio station. Her essays and reporting have been published in The New York Times; Vogue; The Cut; O, The Oprah Magazine; The Atlantic; Slate; The Huffington Post; and Brevity, among others. Zimmerman is the author of Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide, published in June 2024 by the Santa Fe Writers Project.
Zimmerman is also co-author of The Healing Power of Storytelling; and The Doula Guide to Birth. She’s been awarded residencies at the Turkey Land Cove Foundation and currently lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts.