She was a Scripps Fellow at the Center of Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado. In the book Williams reports on her own suffering and recounts her investigations of emotional heartbreak – including her experiences at 'conferences, wilderness programs for sex-trafficked women, universities, medical specialists, countless studies, an epic paddle down the Green River and even a Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia.' Her third book, Heartbreak, which deals with her personal stress from divorce and the science underlying such stress, was released in February 2022. Wilson called the book, 'A beautifully written, thoroughly enjoyable exposition of a major principle of human life now supported by evidence in biology, psychology, and medicine.' Her second book, The Nature Fix, which investigates connections between the brain and nature, was released in February 2017.

The New York Times named it a notable book of 2012. Her first book, Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in science and technology and the 2013 Audie in general nonfiction. ''Human milk is like ice cream, penicillin, and the drug ecstasy all wrapped up in two pretty packages.' - Florence Williams She is a contributing editor at Outside magazine and a freelance writer for National Geographic, the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, Slate, Mother Jones, High Country News, O-Oprah, W., Bicycling and numerous other publications. Florence Williams is an American journalist and nonfiction author whose work focuses on the environment, health and science.

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