Stacy Pershall

Stacy Pershall is an accomplished author who lives with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and struggled with eating disorders for 20 years before recovering through dialectical behavior therapy and body modification. In her work as a member of the Active Minds speakers’ bureau, she educates students, families and clinicians about suicide prevention and anti-bullying activism. Her memoir Loud in the House of Myself (W.W. Norton, 2011) was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. She has appeared on NPR and Sirius XM’s Jane Radio with Jane Pratt, and has written for Psych Central, The Huffington Post, Seventeen and Psychology Today, where she is a regular blogger. She holds an MFA from the University of Cincinnati and teaches creative writing at Gotham Writers’ Workshop and the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth.

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