Permanent Makeup

Terra Ziporyn won first prize for her historical novel Time's Fool in the Maryland Writers Association Novel Contest in 2008, as well as short story awards from Writer's Digest Magazine and the Chicago Literary Review and an Artist Development Grant from the Vermont Council on the Arts. A widely published medical writer, she is a former associate editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) whose books include The New Harvard Guide to Women's Health (Harvard University Press, 2004) and Alternative Medicine for Dummies (IDG Books, 1998). She has a BA in both history and biology from Yale and a PhD in the history of science and medicine from the University of Chicago.