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Writer and poet Laura Kolbe practices medicine and medical ethics at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center and Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. She studied English at Harvard and the University of Cambridge before studying medicine at the University of Virginia, where she was an Edward W. Hook Scholar in Humanities and Ethics. She completed her medical residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Little Pharma (2021), her debut poetry collection, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and was published by the University of Pittsburgh. Her poems and prose have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, n+1, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere (list and links here). Her work has been supported by a Calderwood Fellowship for Journalism and by fellowships at MacDowell and the James Merrill House.
She currently serves as Chief of Medical Ethics and Associate Program Director of the internal medicine residency at Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. She is also an editor of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.