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Frances Stead Sellers
Frances Stead Sellers is a journalist and editor. Frances has written for a wide variety of US and British publications including the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the Guardian. She is formerly the deputy national editor for the Washington Post responsible for Health, Science, and the Environment. In 2011, Frances became Style Editor with the Washington Post.

Career
In her role as editor for the Washington Post's Health, Science and Environmental section, Frances has covered national political and legal news stories. Frances has written extensively on the year-long battle leading to the 2010 passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In 2003, she edited a history of public health for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, titled Saving Lives--Millions at a Time. She currently serves on the advisory board of the school's Center for Refugee and Disaster Response. Before covering health, Frances was deputy editor of the Sunday commentary and opinion section, where she introduced many renowned science and medical writers. Before starting her tenure at the Post, Frances was deputy and then acting editor of Civilization, the award-winning magazine of the Library of Congress.

Frances was a recipient in 2003 of an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship and in 2006 of a Wolfson College Press Fellowship at Cambridge University. A graduate of Oxford University, she grew up in the south of England, and came to the United States as a British Thouron Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. Frances is married to the law professor, Mortimer Sellers.