Kaitlin Bell Barnett Book Dosed

Kaitlin Bell Barnett is a journalist and blogger based in Brooklyn. Her first book,  Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up, comes out in April from Beacon Press.  It examines the experiences of young adults who came of age taking psychiatric meds. She also blogs on the subject at PsychCentral.

Her work has appeared in The New York Observer, Parents, The Huffington Post, Berkshire Living, Gastronomica, Prevention, InTheFray, Hungry, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Boston Globe, among other publications.

Kaitlin grew up in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and attended Columbia Journalism School and Dartmouth College, where she served as executive editor of the independent daily student newspaper. From 2005 to 2007, she worked as a reporter at The Monitor, a daily newspaper in McAllen, Texas, on the Mexico border. There, she covered city government, politics, schools, crime and general assignments.