About Hanne Blank Boyd

Dr. Hanne Blank Boyd is a writer and editor providing a suite of literary services including book coaching, developmental and substantive editing, and ghostwriting.

The author of a number of books including Fat (2020, Bloomsbury), Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality (2014, Beacon Press), and Virgin: The Untouched History (2007, Bloomsbury). Her books have been translated into several languages, including Japanese and Turkish. Her work is published with Bloomsbury, Beacon Press, Seal Press, Chronicle Books, Roadswell Editions, Iletișim Yayinlari, and other publishers worldwide. As an author, Dr. Blank Boyd is represented by Christopher Schelling at Selectric Artists.

A historian, bioethicist, and opera singer by training, Dr. Blank Boyd holds degrees from Emory University, Indiana University, and the New England Conservatory of Music. Formerly on faculty at Denison University, she 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 many others. The breadth and depth of her background fuels her work with eclectic, engaging, and diverse projects and clients.

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On Substack, Hanne writes Reasons Not to Quit, a newsletter centered around snack-sized bites of resilience, encouragement, and possibility. It’s for anybody who wants someone in their corner as they cope with change, grow, and keep on keeping on.

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.

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, a few miles from a barrier island where she can regularly be found walking the dogs on the beach.


AI Policy

AI is a tool, and like any tool, it can be used well or poorly, ethically or unethically. At this point in the development of AI, there are many profound ethical problems with its creation and deployment. For that reason, I do not use AI or Generative AI (GAI) in my work at this time.

Digital information sources such as online dictionaries, library catalogs, and article/journal collections may be used in research, but any content taken directly from any outside source will be clearly identified according to guidelines established in the Chicago Manual of Style.

Images are either created by the author or are selected from credited sources that are identified as coming from a human creator. Every effort is made to avoid those that appear to be machine-created.

If you’d like to know more about the ethical and practical problems AI poses at this stage in its development, this MIT project provides a great deal of insight.


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Editor, book coach, writer, provider of Reasons Not To Quit. Author of Fat (Bloomsbury), Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality (Beacon Press), Virgin: The Untouched History (Bloomsbury), and others.