Allison Coffelt is a bioethics and health humanities scholar, teacher, and writer.

Her scholarship, creative work, and audio production have been featured in JAMA, The Hastings Center for Bioethics, BMJ Medical Humanities, NPR’s KBIA-FM, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is the author of the award-winning book, Maps Are Lines We Draw: A Road Trip through Haiti, a lyric nonfiction exploration of health equity, colonialism, and the complicated relationship between “here” and “there.” Previously, she worked for the world-renowned nonfiction film festival, True/False, and taught narrative medicine at Columbia University.

Allison holds an M.A. in creative nonfiction from the University of Missouri and an M.S. in narrative medicine from Columbia University. She is earning her PhD in Health Care Ethics from Saint Louis University.