About
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.
Featured Work
The Boneheap in the Lion's Den
Winner of the 2023 Press 53 Award for Poetry
A Tom Lombardo Poetry Selection
Other Works
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The New St. Louis Arch
Tendon Magazine, 2024
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In Defense of the ICD System
Snapdragon, 2021
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Trauma Surgeon's Ars Poetica
2022
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The doorbell rings, I am off my meds
2022
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Precious Metals
2022
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Losing Her
2020
Awards and Recognition
- Winner of the 2023 Press 53 Award for Poetry
- Semifinalist in the 2024 Poetry Society of Virginia North American Poetry Book Award, The Boneheap in the Lion’s Den
- 3rd Place in the 2024 William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition hosted by NEOMED, “Memory Remains Blood Soluble”
- Winner of the 2023 Lucky Jefferson Poetry and Prose Contest for “Insurmountable”
- Honorable mention in the 2023 Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest, “Working Dogs”
- Longlist for the summer 2023 Letter Review Prize for Poetry, “A Proof”
- Nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize, “What Does a Medical Student Do All Day?”
- Won the Society of General Internal Medicine Poetry Contest, “What I Learned”
