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Brandy Schillace

(She/Her)
Cleveland
As seen in: Elemental, Medium, MSN, OneZero, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Under The Shell, WIRED Magazine, Scientific American and
Covers:  History, science, medicine, LGBTQ, social justice, disability, bioethics, tech, death, dying, grief
Doesn't Cover: sports
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Brandy Schillace’s Biography

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Dr. BRANDY SCHILLACE (skil-AH-chay) is a historian, journalist, mystery writer, and TV personality. She is author of the critically acclaimed nonfiction MR. HUMBLE AND DR. BUTCHER and a new transgender history, THE INTERMEDIARIES--as well as THE FRAMED WOMEN OF ARDEMORE HOUSE, a mystery novel and first in a series. Brandy's books have been reviewed in Science Magazine, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, New Yorker, Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and more.

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Brandy Schillace’s Journalist Portfolio

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Opinion: Americans with autism are being forced to hide their true selves again. But I refuse to ...

Opinion: Americans with autism are being forced to hide their true selves again. But I refuse to ...

After years of growing understanding and care about the lives of people with autism, America is backsliding d…

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Do No Harm

Do No Harm

Modern medicine continues to fail women. It isn’t just sexism — it’s a failure of the Hippocratic Oath’s firs…

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‘The Headache’ Review: Of Migraines and Mystery

‘The Headache’ Review: Of Migraines and Mystery

Billions of people worldwide suffer from headache disorders. Medical science continues to struggle with the d…

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Primal Intelligence’ Review: Why Brains Are Better than Artificial-intelligence

Primal Intelligence’ Review: Why Brains Are Better than Artificial-intelligence

Primal Intelligence’ Review: Why Brains Are Better Artificial-intelligence tools can process huge amounts of…

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In writing a detective with autism, a novelist investigated herself

In writing a detective with autism, a novelist investigated herself

Speaking to The Post about her new cozy mystery, "The Dead Come to Stay," Brandy Schillace explains how her J…

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The story of a little-known transgender pioneer has fully come to light - The Boston Globe

The story of a little-known transgender pioneer has fully come to light - The Boston Globe

Dora Richter was the first known person to undergo gender confirmation surgery. Why was she lost to history f…

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Articles

‘Morbid’ and ‘Longevity Nation’: The Mystery of Aging

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By Brandy Schillace
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For Respect for the Aged day in 2010, Tokyo officials decided to honor a 111-year-old man named Sogen Kato. Every time they went to meet him, however, Kato was mysteriously not at home. Kato, it turns out, had been dead for at least 30 years, his desiccated remains locked in an upstairs room while his family continued to collect his pension. An investigation across Japan was launched by the Justice Ministry, which discovered that 234,354 supposedly living people were in fact dead.
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‘Arachnomania’ Review: The Original Webmasters

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By Brandy Schillace
| The Wall Street Journal Verified
In many cultures, the spider’s ability to weave threads is understood as a symbol of divine, elemental power. A purple light shines in the darkness like a seam across the void, a faint glow that promises dawn. But no voice calls, no birds sing; the stillness is untroubled by any living creature save one. “In the beginning there was nothing but Spider Woman,” say Navajo and Pueblo elders. She created all the world and everything in it, spinning us into being on threads of silk.
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‘The Fullness of Time’ Review: A Sense of the Passing Day

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By Brandy Schillace
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Before the era of standardized clocks, communities marked the hours through signs glimpsed in the natural world. April 17, 2026 10:25 am ET A wet loop of woolen cloth lies upon the table. Scratchy and stiff, it stinks of the stale urine used to set the dye. Though its smell is hardly appetizing, the cloth is surrounded by a group of women, each with her hands on the folds to knead, slap, punch and beat the cloth into shape.
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Interview

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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. I am that old.

How is social media changing news?

I'm starting to think social media IS the news.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

My email works like a to-do list; I am reachable on social media, but if you are in my email box, I will definitely get to you.

Awards

Arthur P. Sloan Science Foundation Award

2015 - Science Communication

The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise.

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Royden B Davis Distinguished Author Award

2024 - Book author
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