Maggie Scarf is a visiting fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, and a fellow of Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University. She is a Contributing Editor to The New Republic, a former member of the Oxygen/Markle Pulse Advisory Board, a former member of the board of Family Counseling of Greater New Haven. She has recently stepped down after a many years as a member of the Advisory Board of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale, and has also just completed a 10 year service on the Advisory Board of the American Psychiatric Press. She is the author of two books for children and five books for adults.

Ms. Scarf has been awarded the following fellowships and awards: Ford Foundation Fellow; Nieman Fellowship in Journalism at Harvard; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (1977-78 and again in 1985-86); Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow; and she was a grantee of The Smith Richardson Foundation for several years (1990 to 1994).

She has also received several National Media Awards from the American Psychological Foundation, including the first prize (National Media Award) in 1973. During the past several years, Ms. Scarf has served on the National Commission on Women and Depression, has been the recipient of a Certificate of Appreciation from the Connecticut Psychological Association (1988) and also received The Connecticut United Nations Award, which cited her as an Outstanding Connecticut Woman. In 1997 she was awarded a Special Certificate of Commendation from the American Psychiatric Association for an article on patient confidentiality ("Keeping Secrets") which was published in The New York Times Magazine. She was Honoree of the New York State Society of Clinical Social Workers at their 1998 meeting.

She has made many television appearances (among them The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Phil Donahue Show, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS News, Primetime Live, CNN), and has been interviewed extensively on radio. She has also been featured in many newspapers and magazines across the nation, including People magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek and others.

Maggie Scarf lives in Connecticut with her husband Herb, the Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale, and is the mother of three adult daughters.