Lisa Belkin has spent a career covering American social issues, as a daily journalist, a magazine writer and a book author. During nearly 30 years at The New York Times, she was variously a national correspondent (based in Houston), a medical reporter, a business reporter, a Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine, and the creator of the Life's Work column and the Motherlode blog. She has spent the past decade in the digital realm, in senior positions at HuffPost and Yahoo News.
Belkin is the author of four three books – "Genealogy of a Murder,""Life's Work, Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom", "First, Do No Harm", and "Show Me A Hero,"which was made into an HBO miniseries of the same name and nominated for, among other things: a Golden Globe, Satellite, Critics Choice and NAACP Image Award for acting; a Writers Guild and Scripter Award for best writing; and a Critics Choice and Satellite award for best miniseries.
In other media, Belkin was the host of "Life's Work with Lisa Belkin", on XM Radio, as well as a regular contributor to Public Radio's The Takeaway and NBC's Today Show. A graduate of Princeton University (where she became a writer under the mentorship of John McPhee), she has returned there as a visiting professor in the Humanities Council, teaching narrative non-fiction as an instrument of social change. Since 2015 she has taught reporting, writing and narrative non-fiction at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.