Alisha Kaplan is a poet, educator, and narrative medicine practitioner. Using the arts, she works with health professionals and patients to reinvigorate medicine with care and humanity. Alisha has an MFA in Poetry from New York University and an MS in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. She teaches Health Humanities at the University of Toronto and is a creative writing workshop facilitator with the Writers Collective of Canada.

Her debut poetry collection, Qorbanot, won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award from the League of Canadian Poets. Other honours she has received include the Hippocrates Prize in Poetry and Medicine, a Post-Graduate Fellowship in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University, and a Rona Jaffe Fellowship. Alisha lives on a farm in Hillsburgh, Ontario, where she grows garlic, harvests honey, and hosts barn dances.

Alisha is a workshop facilitator and instructor for the NBM Lab and an experienced project mentor. She is comfortable mentoring in creative writing (including poetry and other forms), development and facilitation of NBM sessions, and other projects related to NBM.