Alisha Kaplan (she/her)
Toronto and Bela Farm, Ontario

Alisha Kaplan is a poet, educator, and narrative medicine practitioner. Using the arts, she works with health professionals and patients to reinvigorate medicine with care and humanity. She has an MFA in Poetry from New York University and a Master of Science in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. Her debut collection of poems, Qorbanot, won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award from the League of Canadian Poets. She is a recipient of the Hippocrates Prize in Poetry and Medicine, a Rona Jaffe Fellowship, and a Post-Graduate Fellowship in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. Alisha splits her time between Toronto and Bela Farm.

Visit Alisha’s website: www.alishakaplan.com