Anna DeForest is a neurologist and palliative care specialist who also holds an MFA from Brooklyn College. Her writing has appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Paris Review, among others. Her debut novel, A History of Present Illness, won the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives and works in New York City. 

Co-sponsored by the Mind, Brain and Behavior Initiative; the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences; and the Department of Biology.