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Tessa Miller

Biography

Tessa Miller

Tessa Miller is a Brooklyn-based health and science journalist. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York magazine, Self, Vice and Medium, among others. She was a senior editor at Lifehacker and the Daily Beast. WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU is her first book.

Tessa Miller

Books by Tessa Miller

by Tessa Miller - Memoir, Nonfiction

Tessa Miller was an ambitious twentysomething writer in New York City when, on a random fall day, her stomach began to seize up. At first, she toughed it out through searing pain, taking sick days from work, unable to leave the bathroom or her bed. But when it became undeniable that something was seriously wrong, Miller gave in to family pressure and went to the hospital --- beginning a yearslong nightmare of procedures, misdiagnoses and life-threatening infections. Once she was finally correctly diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, Miller faced another battle: accepting that she will never get better.