Tina Cassidy is an author and award-winning
veteran journalist with extensive experience in real estate-related journalism. She began her career as the banking and retail reporter for the Boston Business Journal and wrote for the Associated Press.

In 1994, she became the real estate reporter for the Boston Globe, covering residential and commercial markets and won the National Association of
Real Estate Reporters and Editors' first prize for best collection of work.

In 1996 she became the paper's sports marketing reporter, focusing on the attempts of Red Sox and the New England Patriots to build new stadiums. As those stories became more political, Tina followed the narratives to the center of government, reporting from the State House on the intersection of business and politics. During this time she was also an adjunct professor of journalism at Northeastern University, and in 1998, she was named one of the best financial journalists "under 30" by the Journal for Financial Reporting.

She then became a political reporter, and was a founding member of the Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors, a national group for state government reporting, before making the switch to style writing, in 2001. She initiated a weekly trend column called "The Look," received the Globe's Impact Award for creating the feature, and seasonally attended runway shows in New York, Paris and Milan.

Tina then became an assistant business editor in 2003, overseeing four weekend sections, including all real estate coverage, and managing a team of 12.

She left the paper in 2005, and a year later, Atlantic Monthly Press published her acclaimed book Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born, which has also been published in the UK by a division of Random House.

Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, the Boston Business Journal, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, the Sunday Times (London), the Express (London) and the Sunday Herald (Glasgow), as well as various other magazines and newspapers.

She holds a bachelor of arts from Northeastern.