Rebecca Coffey

Rebecca Coffey is an award-winning print journalist, documentary filmmaker, and radio commentator. Coffey contributes regularly to Scientific American and Discover magazines. She blogs about sexuality, relationships, crime and punishment, social media, and psychology for Psychology Today, and is a broadcasting contributor to Vermont Public Radio’s drive-time commentary series. Her most recent major work is Murders Most Foul and The School Shooters in Our Midst (Vook), which landed her appearances on FOX News, CBS Radio and NPR, among others. Her narrative nonfiction book Unspeakable Truths and Happy Endings: Human Cruelty and the New Trauma Therapy (Sidran Press) was widely praised, and was named an Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association’s Choice magazine. Her television documentaries about health and mental health have been broadcast nationally.

Coffey is also a humorist. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Rumpus, and a large handful of literary magazines and e-zines.