Frances Stead Sellers

Frances Stead Sellers Biography

Frances Stead Sellers is a senior writer and editor at The Washington Post.

Life and career

Sellers is a senior writer at The Post's Sunday magazine.

She has been the editor of several sections of The Washington Post, including Health and Science and the signature daily section, Style, which focuses on profiles, personalities, arts and ideas.

Sellers ran the newsroom's health, science and environmental coverage, during the battle over health reform, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the 2011 Japanese tsunami and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Her previous jobs at the Post include deputy editor of Outlook, the Sunday commentary section.

Sellers joined The Post from Civilization, the bi-monthly magazine of the Library of Congress. She was a key member of the launch team, and led the magazine to a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in its first year of publication. Sellers started her career at Ddalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

She has appeared as a commentator on a range of subjects on TV and radio, including BBC World News, NPR's Diane Rehm Show and MSNBC's Morning Joe and interviewed prominent figures in the arts and sciences.

Frances Stead Sellers was born in Britain, graduated from Oxford University and came to the United States as a British Thouron scholar in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Among many other topics, she is known for writing about language, citizenship and identity. Sellers is married to the law professor Mortimer Sellers.

Awards

Press fellowship, Wolfson College, Cambridge - 2006
Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship - 2003
British Thouron Scholarship

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