Announcing the Dr. Paul Kalanithi Writing Award Winners | Join us on zoom! 

Paul Kalanithi was a physician writer and neurosurgery resident at Stanford University. In the final years of his training, he was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer. His memoir, When Breath Becomes Air, beautifully chronicles his reflections on living with illness and the meaning of legacy. The Paul Kalanithi Writing Award was created in his memory.

First place: Sick Girl Goes on a Date | Alyson Lee

Second place: To Sit With | Brian Zhao

Third place: What That Poem Was About | Fiona Miller

Fourth place: I Wear You Like a Memory | Nicolas Seranio

Honorable Mention: Junk Journal | James Hyun Lee

Sponsored by a generous donor, and hosted by the Medical Humanities & the Arts Program at the Stanford School of Medicine