International Health Humanities Network Membership

Thomas Dooley is a New York City poet who facilitates creative writing at the bedsides of hospitalized teenagers, young adults and palliative care patients. In addition to his in-patient work, Thomas runs writing workshops for teenagers living with HIV/AIDS.  He is editor-in-chief of a literary magazine that publishes writing and art created by teenagers in and out of the hospital community.  He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing - Poetry from New York University where he coordinates the Starworks Fellowship. As coordinator, he mentors creative writing students who visit New York hospitals and facilitate creative writing at the bedside of pediatric patients. His work as an editor of published illness narratives has been presented internationally at A Narrative Future for Health Care at Kings College, London and at Attentive Writers at University of Glasgow. In addition, Thomas is founder and artistic director of Emotive Fruition, a theatre collective where poets and actors collaborate to bring new poetry to life on stage and in film. As a poet, Thomas's first collection, TRESPASS was selected as a winner by The National Poetry Series and will be published by HarperColins Publishers in October 2014.