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. 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. Her work has appeared in arts and medical journals, including JAMA, Intima Magazine, and Doxy's Op Med. Maya currently attends Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine and lives in Bergen County with her grandmother.
Featured Work
Trauma Surgeon's Ars Poetica
2022
Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Trauma Surgeon's Ars Poetica is a physician coming up against their reality: a world soaked in blood.
Other Works
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The Body Only Speaks Her Own Language
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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In Defense of the ICD System
2021
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Losing Her
2020
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Hurting Instructions
2020
Awards and Recognition
- Winner of the 2023 Press 53 Award for Poetry
- 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”
