Owen Lewis

Owen Lewis, author of three collections of poetry, Field Light(Distinguished Favorite, 2020 NYCBigBookAward; 2021 “Must Read”, Mass Book Awards), Marriage Map (short list Rubery Book Awards)and Sometimes Full of Daylight, all from Dos Madres Press, and three chapbooks, mostly recently Knock-knock (2024). best man was the recipient of the 2016 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize of the New England Poetry Club. Prizes include: 2023 Guernsey International Poetry Competition, 2023 Arts & Letters/ Rumi Prize, 2016 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. His poetry has appeared in Nimrod, Poetry Wales, The Mississippi Review, Southward, The Four Way Review, Arts & Letters, and Cider Press Review. His literary essays have appeared in Intima, Ink Sweat & Tears, Presence, Wordpeace, and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 

At Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, he is Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics, and at Einstein School of Medicine he is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry. In both departments he teaches applications of Narrative Medicine. He has lectured extensively on the subject and given many departmental grand rounds on various topics of Narrative Medicine.