Beth Weinhouse

Beth Weinhouse has spent much of her career in journalism, both in-print and online. She’s been an editor at magazines including Ladies’ Home Journal, Self, Parenting, Prevention, Physicians’ Life, Redbook, and Reader’s Digest. And she’s edited and written book reviews, news reports, investigations, travel writing, cookbooks, memoirs, and celebrity profiles for dozens of publications including New York Newsday, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Town & Country, Columbia Magazine, and many, many more. Under her editorship, Conceive Magazine won a coveted Gold Folio award.

Her first book was The Healthy Traveler, with information for people about how to stay healthy when away from home. Her second book, co-written with Leslie Laurence, was Outrageous Practices: How Medicine Mistreats Women, investigating how gender bias—often unintentional—has harmed women’s health. She has edited two books of fiction: The anthology 20 over 40, and the follow-up to that, 20 over 60, showcasing the incredible talents of older writers.