About the Author
Maya J. Sorini is a narrative medicine scholar, medical student, essayist, and award winning poet. Her first collection, The Boneheap in the Lion's Den, won the 2023 Press 53 Award for Poetry and was a semifinalist for the 2024 Poetry Society of Virginia North American Book Award. Maya has a master's degree and has taught in Columbia University's Narrative Medicine program, and continues to work as a freelance Narrative Medicine workshop facilitator and lecturer. Her work has appeared in arts and medical journals, including The Journal of Medical Humanities, Intima Magazine, The Brown Journal of Medical Humanities, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Maya is a fourth year student at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine applying for emergency medicine residency.
Education
Medical Student at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Class of 2025
MS in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University
Class of 2020
BA in Chemistry from Washington U. in St. Louis
Class of 2018
Graduate of the Holton Arms School
Class of 2014