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Sayantani DasGupta works at the intersection of narrative, health, and race. She is a physician by training, faculty founder of the master’s program in narrative medicine at Columbia University, and teaches and advises in Columbia’s undergraduate major in medical humanities. She is co-author of The Principles at Practices of Narrative Medicine (winner of the Perkins Award for Narrative), co-editor of Outsourcing LIfe: Globalization, Parenthood and Transnational Surrogacy and Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write their Bodies (Silver medal winner, women’s issues category, independent publisher book awards; Finalist, women’s issues category, ForeWord Magazine book of the year awards). Her work has appeared in The Lancet, JAMA, Pediatrics, Teaching and Learning in Medicine, and The Journal of Medical Humanities, and she is associate editor of Literature and Medicine. Dr. DasGupta is also a New York Times bestselling author for young people and her books have received recognitions including The National Science Teachers Association Outstanding Trade Science Book, Bank Street Best Middle-Grade Book of the Year, and Booklist Best Middle-Grade Novel of the 21st Century. She is a faculty founder of the provost-funded Pedagogy of Listening Lab at Columbia.

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Dr. DasGupta is a NYT Bestselling Children’s Author