In 2017, she released three more books, A Beautiful Poison, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (co-written with Nate Pedersen), and The November Girl.

The sequel, Catalyst, was published in 2015. After writing two novels, she sold her third, a young adult science fiction novel, Control, to Penguin Random House in 2011 which subsequently released in 2013. In 2009, she joined the writing workshop The Seven Doctors Project at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

In 2006, she moved to Omaha, Nebraska with her family and is an assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. After completing a primary care internal medicine residency at New York University's Langone Department of Medicine, she served as chief resident from 2001 to 2002 before staying on as an attending physician at Bellevue Hospital. She received her MD from New York University Grossman School of Medicine in 1998. She was a research assistant at the Columbia University Department of Biology during her undergraduate years and in graduate school. She graduated from Roland Park Country School in 1989 and received her BA from Columbia University. Lydia Kang was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Lydia Kang (born October 4, 1971) is an American author and internal medicine physician, best known for her adult historical novel Opium and Absinthe: A Novel and her medical nonfiction book Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, co-written with Nate Pedersen.

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