Damian Tarnopolsky, PhD

Damian Tarnopolsky, Ph.D., is Writer-in-Residence with the Health, Arts, and Humanities Program at the University of Toronto and has taught courses in narrative-based medicine at the Centre for Faculty Development, Massey College, and the Writing as Craft virtual retreat. He started A Rooster for Asclepius: The Toronto Health Humanities Writing Group, and now leads its digital reincarnation, “Plums in the Icebox: Writing for Health Practitioners” with co-founder Dr. Shane Neilson.

A novelist, short story writer and playwright, Damian Tarnopolsky has been nominated for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Journey Prize, and the CBC Literary Award, among others, and his play The Defence won the 2019 Voaden Prize. His essays and reviews have appeared in The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Review of Books, Reader’s Digest and elsewhere, and he owns and operates Slingsby and Dixon, an editing company that works with fiction writers, businesses, and academic institutions.

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