Betty Morningstar

Betty Morningstar is a clinical social worker with experience as a psychotherapist, educator, and associate chaplain. She holds a Ph.D. from Smith College School for Social Work and an M.A. from Andover Newton Theological School. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe Magazine, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, and Columbia University Press, among other outlets. She lives with her wife in Boston and on Cape Cod. Her memoir, I Didn't Know That I Didn't Know You: A Late Coming of Age Story, is a collection of personal essays published by Legacy Book Press in 2026. The essays cover family, mental health, religion, and vocation across the 1950s and 1960s.