Batya Swift Yasgur

BATYA SWIFT YASGUR is a licensed social worker and freelance medical writer whose work appears regularly in Medscape and WebMD. Her books include Women at Risk and America: A Freedom Country.

Yasgur won the 1995 Mystery Writers of America’s Robert L. Fish Award for Best First Published Mystery Story and the Coalition of Alternatives in Jewish Education’s David Dornstein Memorial Creative Writing Award for short fiction. She holds a BA from Barnard College, an MA in Near Eastern Languages from Harvard University, and an MSW from Rutgers University.

When she’s not writing, Yasgur serves on the advisory board of the Afghan Women’s Fund. Her fiction, which has appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, reflects an engagement with lives shaped by challenge and circumstance.

Batya lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Batya Swift Yasgur’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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