Kelsey Osgood is a Brooklyn-based writer. She has contributed to The New Yorker‘s Culture Desk blog, Salon, New York, Gothamist, among other publications. She also regularly blogs for Psychology Today. She is a graduate of Columbia University and Goucher College’s MFA program in Creative Nonfiction. How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia is her first book.
Anorexia Is Contagious, and I Wanted to Catch It
The explosion of awareness about eating disorders has become a double-edged sword whereby anorexia has become shorthand for “fragile and interesting”