Doris Iarovici

Doris Iarovici grew up in New York City after arriving there at age 5 from Romania. She has been writing her whole life, and first published poetry and essays in Seventeen Magazine as a teenager. She graduated from Yale College and the Yale University School of Medicine, hoping it was still possible to become a physician-writer in the information age.

Doris moved to North Carolina for residency training in psychiatry at Duke Medical Center, and continued to write, publishing in Newsweek, Health, Parents and the New York Times. Her short fiction has appeared in Crescent Review and Crab Orchard Review, where it was awarded the 2002 Jack Dyer Prize and nominated for a Pushcart. She is the recipient of a 2003-2004 Durham Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant, and scholarships in fiction to both the Wesleyan Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She continues to work as a psychiatrist at Duke University, and lives in Durham with her family.