Udesky is an award-winning journalist who has reported for National Public Radio and written on health issues for the New York Times, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Dallas Morning News, AARP.com, Sight and Sound, and Caring.com; her writing has also appeared in several anthologies. She is a staff reporter for PACEs Connection, which focuses on childhood trauma and healing, and a former associate editor of Southern Exposure magazine.