[2] She was the recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her reporting at The Star-Ledger on the 2009 wreck of the Lady Mary fishing vessel.
[9] After receiving her M.S., Nutt enrolled in Ph.D. programs at both Boston College and MIT, but lost interest and did not complete them.
"[17] In 2014, she joined the national staff of the Washington Post, writing for the health, science and environment team through 2018.
[18] Amy Ellis Nutt contributed to numerous insightful articles for her readers while she was employed by The Washington Post, covering subjects including autism, suicide, and brain research, among others.
Her writings are in-depth, powerful real-life conversations in which she catches the moments when the readers' minds are not simply explained but also painted.