Rachel Campo

Rafael Campo is an American poet, essayist, and physician born in 1964 in Dover, New Jersey, to Cuban and Italian parents. He is the author of numerous poetry collections including The Other Man Was Me (1994, National Poetry Series winner), What the Body Told (1996, Lambda Literary Award), Diva (1999), Landscape with Human Figure (2002), The Enemy (2007, Sheila Motton Book Prize), Alternative Medicine (2013), and Comfort Measures Only (2018); notable prose works include The Poetry of Healing (1997) and The Healing Art (2003). Career highlights include practicing internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, serving as Poetry Editor for JAMA, Director of Literature and Writing Programs at Harvard Medical School, and receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship among other awards.