Suzanne Koven

Biography

Suzanne Koven is a primary-care physician and writer-in-residence in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She contributes the interview column “The Big Idea” to the Rumpus.

See Work

ESSAYS / Winter 2016

Poor Historians

By Suzanne Koven ,  Illustration by Stephen Doyle

Illness can be painful and terrifying. But for a writer illness also can be good material.