Chelsea Conaboy is a health and science journalist. She started her career at the small but mighty Concord Monitor in New Hampshire, where she discovered her love for narrative writing. She wrote about health care at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Boston Globe, and was part of the Globe staff that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news, for coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. For three years, she led the features report at the Portland Press Herald in Maine, where she edited weekly sections on arts and entertainment, books, food, and sustainable living. Chelsea's writing also has been published by The New York Times, Mother Jones, Politico, the Boston Sunday Globe magazine, National Journal, The Week, ParentMap, and WBUR. She has been a fellow with the Poynter Institute, the National Library of Medicine and the Health Coverage Fellowship led by writer Larry Tye.

Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood, published by Henry Holt & Co., is Chelsea's first book. The writing and reporting of Mother Brain was supported by a generous grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Public Understanding of Science and Technology Program. Parts of Mother Brain were written in the cabins of the Hewnoaks Artist Residency.