A champion of parents with chronic conditions.
Hilary’s writing and trainings provide parents with age appropriate strategies, tools, and scripts for talking to their children about their illness, hospitalizations, medical emergencies, heritable conditions, and much more.
As a mother with two diseases, Hilary draws on her own experience as well as more than 100 hours of interviews with parents, child psychologists, teachers, and medical professionals.
She has worked as an author and editor for Oxford and Cambridge University Presses, Pearson, and National Geographic, and written for Slate, Literary Mama, Waging Nonviolence, and Hemispheres. She served as Associate Vice Chancellor of Adult Education for the City Colleges of Chicago for many years before moving to France in 2017.
She is the patient co-chair of the severe asthma arm of the European Respiratory Society and, in that capacity, has contributed to papers published in Nature, The Lancet, and for the World Health Organization.
She holds a BA in Spanish, Italian, and Philosophy from Kenyon College and an MA in Linguistics from the University of Florida. She is the Director of Grand West Lit Events and lives in the Loire Valley in France with her husband and son.
