About
Writing and Speaking from/to the Head and the Heart
John-Manuel Andriote is an award-winning journalist, author, and speaker whose work explores resilience, caregiving, health, healing, and the human experience. For more than three decades, he has helped people make sense of life’s challenges by translating complex medical and scientific information into clear, accessible language while uncovering the human stories that give those issues meaning.
Andriote began reporting on the HIV-AIDS epidemic while earning a master’s degree in journalism at Northwestern University in the 1980s. His landmark book, Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America, documented the epidemic’s profound impact on individuals and communities. Hundreds of interviews and research materials from that work are preserved in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History.
His writing has appeared in publications including The Atlantic, The Washington Post, AARP Bulletin, and HuffPost. Today, as the senior writer and magazine editor for Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, he translates leading-edge cancer research and clinical advances into stories that inform, educate, and empower patients and families.
Since 2017, Andriote has explored resilience, emotional well-being, and personal growth through his Stonewall Strong blog for Psychology Today. Those same themes are central to his forthcoming book, America’s Strong Men, examining how male caregivers are demonstrating that compassion, dependability, responsibility, and care align perfectly with traditional ideals of masculinity and reveal the most powerful forms of strength.
Andriote’s perspective is informed not only by decades of reporting but also by personal experience as an HIV survivor, health advocate, and caregiver. Whether writing, teaching, or speaking, Andriote’s work invites audiences to rethink what it means to be resilient and strong and to recognize caregiving and human connection as essential elements of a meaningful life.