Maya J. Sorini - About the Author

Selected Works

Poetry

The poems in Maya J. Sorini's The Boneheap in the Lion's Den take us inside the intense and often gruesome world of a hospital trauma unit, a milieu both surreal and (often) deadly real. Sorini never looks away from the hard stuff—in fact, the hard stuff is where she starts—but her gorgeous, precise lines and rhythms make this book unputdownable, despite the human instinct to look away. I finished this book grateful and changed.

—Lynn Melnick, author of Refusenik and Landscape with Sex and Violence

Now That The Kids Have Gotten Their Shots

Precious Metals

Trauma Surgeon Ars Poetica

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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.

Maya J. Sorini's first was selected as the 2023 Press 53 award for poetry, and is available for purchase!

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