About Dr. Hanne Blank Boyd

Dr. Hanne Blank Boyd is the author of a number of books including Fat (2020, Bloomsbury), Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality (2014, Beacon Press), Virgin: The Untouched History (2007, Bloomsbury), and numerous others. Her work has been translated into several languages, including Japanese and Turkish.  Find out more about her books here.

Hanne works as a writer, a consultant and coach in private practice, and a developmental editor

On Substack, she writes Reasons Not to Quit, a newsletter for writers, creators, and everyone trying to think smarter, write better, and find pragmatic, inventive ways to cope with life's arrrgh. Reasons Not to Quit began on Twitter in November 2016 as a daily dose of motivation and audacity, and ran for 5 years before taking a hiatus.  It relaunched into a new incarnation on Substack in May 2024.

A historian, bioethicist, and opera singer by training, Hanne holds degrees from Emory University, Indiana University, and the New England Conservatory of Music.  Her research has been supported by grants from Smith College, Duke University, and Emory University.

Former faculty at Denison University, Hanne has been a lecturer and visiting speaker at institutions including Harvard University, Brandeis University, Emory University School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Alabama, and others.  She maintains an active schedule as a public speaker.

Hanne Blank Boyd lives with her family in a small town tucked into the salt marshes and historical pirate coves of the Cape Fear river delta where she writes, consults, knits, sings, sews, and walks the dogs on a ten-mile-long beach.

Dr. Blank Boyd is represented by Christopher Schelling at Selectric Artists.

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Hanne Blank Boyd is the author of groundbreaking books in the intersections of identity, culture, bodies, and everyday life, focusing on the ways cultural and historical narratives shape lived experience.

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Moving ideas from one place to another since 1969, sometimes in essay or book form, also as a consultant, coach, and developmental editor. If you need reasons not to quit, I'm your girl.