Whitney Lee

Whitney Lee is Maternal Fetal Medicine physician, an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University, former OpEd Public Voices Fellow, and veteran. She received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Lunch Ticket, Typehouse, The Rumpus, Crack the Spine, Gravel, and Numéro Cinq. Currently, she is working on a collection of essays about a physician’s experience with death.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2019*

Best American Essays 2021*

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