Lisa Gruenberg is a physician, medical educator, and writer based in Boston. She is a graduate of Williams College and Albany Medical College and received her MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. She has taught creative writing at the Karolinska Institute, the Asian University for Women, and Harvard Medical School. Her essays have been published in Ploughshares, Vital Signs, Hospital Drive, The Intima, a Journal of Narrative Medicine, and The Michigan Quarterly Review. Her short story, Keiskamma, won the 2012 Artist's Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.