About

Liana Meffert is a writer and emergency medicine resident-physician living in Washington, DC.

She holds an MD from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine with distinction in health and humanities. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Emory University.

Her writing has appeared in JAMA, Medscape, The Examined Life Journal, The Healing Muse, and more. She is the recipient of multiple awards including Stanford’s Irvin David Yalom Literary Award, the F. Sean Hodge Prize for Poetry in Medicine, the Robert D. Sparks Writing Contest and the Carver College of Medicine Arvind Reddy Memorial Award.

Her work surveys the intersectionality of poetry, personal narrative, and medicine, with the occasional sagacious insight.