Betsy Hartmann writes fiction and non-fiction about critical national and global issues. She is the author of the novels Deadly Election and The Truth about Fire and the feminist classic, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control. She is co-author of A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village and co-editor of the anthology, Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties. She has written for the Boston Globe, New York Times, the Nation and a variety of policy and scholarly publications. A longstanding activist in the international women’s health movement, she speaks and consults on international population, development and environment issues and has appeared on CNN and BBC television. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts where she teaches and directs the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College. She received her B.A. from Yale University and PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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