Walter M. Robinson is a writer and physician in Massachusetts. He is an editor for EastOver Press and Cutleaf.
Robinson is the winner of the River Teeth Book Prize for 2020. His collection of essays, What Cannot Be Undone—True Stories of a Life in Medicine, will be published by University of New Mexico Press in Spring 2022.
He has been a fellow at MacDowell and Yaddo and was a PEN-New England "New Discovery in Non-Fiction.” His research has been supported by the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, and the Project on Death in America/Open Society Institute.
His recent or forthcoming essays include:
“White Coat, Black Habit,” in Ruminate, Fall 2021. (Finalist for the 2021 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize.)
“As Though He Has Fallen From A Great Height” in Months to Years, Spring 2021.
“Of Birds and Men and Night” in wildness, Feb 9, 2021
"This Will Sting and Burn" The Sun January 2016 http://thesunmagazine.org/issues/481/this_will_sting_and_burn (Reprinted in 2017 in Reader's Digest: http://www.rd.com/health/conditions/doctor-becomes-the-patient/) (Listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays, 2017.)
"Empathy Machine: The Singular Science of Nancy Andrews" in What It Means To Be Human, Artists in Context, Cambridge MA, 2016.
"White Cloth Ribbons" Harvard Review, Fall 2015. http://www.harvardreview.org/?q=authors/walter-m-robinson(Listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays, 2016.)
"Nurse Clappy Gets His" The Literary Review, Winter 2014. http://www.theliteraryreview.org/essay/nurse-clappy-gets-his/ (Listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays, 2015.)
Contact: words at wmrobinson dot com