Anna DeForest

Anna DeForest is the author of the novel A History of Present Illness and Our Long Marvelous Dying. Anna has an MFA from Brooklyn College and an MD from Columbia University and works as a palliative care physician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

Anna DeForest on Writing Without Artifice

"There is no one outside of the story, there is no place outside from which to tell it."

July 19, 2024 By Anna DeForest

Ask Me About Death and Dying: On the Work of Palliative Care

Anna DeForest Wrestles With the Calculus of Whether a Life Is Worth Living

August 16, 2022 By Anna DeForest

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