Class of: 1987

Janet Young

Janet Young (GRS’87) of New York, N.Y., is a communications writer at the Columbia School of Social Work. She is also the author of young adult books on mental illness: The Opposite of Music (Simon Pulse, 2008), The Babysitter Murders (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2011), Things I Shouldn’t Think (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2012), and My Beautiful Failure (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2013). Learn more about her work at janetruthyoung.com.

From the Winter-Spring 2020 issue.