About

Alexis Rehrmann is a writer, editor, and narrative medicine practitioner who has pursued the connection between story and healing throughout much of her creative and professional life. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Portland Monthly Magazine, PDX Parent, the Intima Journal of Narrative Medicine, the Journal of Medical Humanities, OHSU Digital Collections, and in Anastomosis, the Stanford University School of Medicine’s humanities and literary journal.

She is currently working on her first book, Conception: A Miscarriage Journal, a work of narrative nonfiction grounded in women’s stories and blended with reflective memoir. The finished work will offer readers a way to carry their own losses to term.

As a narrative medicine practitioner, she develops and leads narrative medicine workshops through the Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative. She holds a CPA in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University and a BFA in Theatre from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts.