Alessandra Colaianni

Biography

Alessandra Colaianni is a writer and practicing head and neck surgeon at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, OR. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Guernica, the New England Journal of Medicine, and other venues.

See Work

ESSAYS / Spring/Summer 2023

Omens

By Alessandra Colaianni ,  Illustration by Margeaux Walter

Even surgeons can be superstitious.

Photo illustration by Margeaux Walter