Abigail Trafford

<p>Abigail Trafford is an author, journalist, and public speaker. She wrote the My Time column at the <em>Washington Post</em> and has been a commentator for Washington Post Radio and a syndicated columnist with Universal Press Syndicate. For fourteen years she was the <em>Post</em>'s health editor and previously worked at <em>U.S. News & World Report</em> as a writer, senior editor, and assistant managing editor. She received journalism fellowships at the Harvard School of Public Health in 1982 and 2002 and was a visiting scholar at the Stanford University Center on Longevity in 2007. She lives in Boston and Vinalhaven, Maine.</p>