Everything I Know About Breast Cancer I Learned from My Garden | Irene Virag | TEDxSBUWomen

Irene Virag's garden has been entwined with her life ever since she was fought off breast cancer 19 years ago.Last year, she discovered she carries the BRCA gene mutation and confronted the disease again. Both times, she found strength and insight in her garden.

Irene Virag is a Pulitzer Prize winner who left the newsroom for the garden path. In her almost-30-year career, she shared the Pulitzer for local reporting as a member of a Newsday team and was a Pulitzer finalist for feature writing and explanatory journalism. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and her work has been honored by The Newswomen’s Club of New York, The American Horticultural Society and The Garden Writers Association. One of her stories about her battle with breast cancer was included in the American Society of Newspaper Editors “Best Newspaper Writing of 1998.” She received a bachelor’s degree from Boston University and a master’s from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She is the author of two books, “We’re All in This Together – Families Facing Breast Cancer” and “Gardening on Long Island with Irene Virag.” She teaches narrative journalism in the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University.

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