Beryl Benderly

Prize-winning freelance health and science journalist Beryl Lieff Benderly is the author or co-author of eight books, including Challening the Breast Cancer Legacy and Dancing Without Music: Deafness in America, as well as hundreds of articles that have appeared Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, Discover, Prism, Slate, Ladies Home Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times and Los Angeles Times book reviews, among many other prominent publications. For 15 years her “Taken for Granted” column appeared monthly and her blog posts appeared frequently on the Science magazine website. 

 Elected a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, she has won prizes including the June Roth Award in Medical Writing of the American Society of Journalist and Authors; two National Psychology Awards for Excellence in Media from the American Psychological Association; the Iris Molotsky Award of the American Association of University Professors, the IEEE-USA Journalism award, the EMMA (Exceptional Merit Media Award) of Radcliffe College and the National Women’s Political; a first place, a second place and an honorable mention in the Simon Rockower Awards of te American Jewish Press Association for writing on subjects including cancer genetics, sign language, depression, the scientific labor market, bioengineering, electronic medical records, the Warsaw Ghetto and antisemitism in America.  A longtime board member and officer of the National Association of Science Writers, respresented NASW on the Authors Coalition of America. She has had fellowships to the Kavli Science Journalism program at MIT, Euroscience Open Forum from the Robert Bosch Stiftung, and the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland. 

She has given interviews on CNN, the “Today Show” and a number of National Public Radio programs and has taught science and health writing at the University of Maryland and in workshops sponsored by the Institute of the Americas and at other jointly sponsored by the International Center for Journalists of Washington, D.C., Universidad Anahuac del Sur of Mexico City, the Pontificia Universidad Catolica of Santiago, and the U.S. National Institutes of Health.  She has given invited talks to the American Heart Association, the American Society of Astronomy, the Medical College of Wisconsin, and other groups.