Narrative Medicine Rounds
Narrative Medicine Rounds are a lecture/performance series held the first Wednesday of each month via Zoom during the academic year. The Rounds host writers, clinicians, artists, and theorists whose work illuminates narrative medicine principles and practice. Free and open to the public. Registration required. See below for upcoming rounds dates and registration.
Upcoming Events
December 3rd Narrative Medicine Rounds with Antoinette Cooper
For our December rounds, we have the pleasure of welcoming Antoinette Cooper, a visionary writer, TEDx speaker, Collective Trauma Facilitator, and founder of Black Exhale. Her work, featured in The Poetry Foundation, lntima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, and others, explores intersections of race, gender, health, and ancestral healing. Cooper holds an MFA from Columbia University and serves on the advisory board for CUNY's Narrative Medicine program. Her debut book of poetry, UNRULY, was published in 2025.
December 10th Narrative Medicine Rounds with Lidia Yuknavitch
*Rescheduled Event From September 2025*
Yuknavitch, the National Bestselling author of four novels: Thrust, The Book of Joan, Dora: A Headcase, and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Awards Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the OBA Reader's Choice Award. Her newest memoir, Reading the Waves, was published by Riverhead books in 2025.
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