
Lila Flavin
she/her | writer, psychiatrist | Providence, RI, United States
Lila Flavin lives in Providence, Rhode Island. She is an addiction psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Her writing centers on the intersection of queerness, motherhood and medicine. She's at work on a novel that takes place on a psychiatric inpatient unit in NYC.
Selected work
This Will End – Lila Flavin
Embark: A Literary Journal for Novelists, 2018
FictionLong ReadLGBTQ+
How I Became an Actual Doctor — HerStry
HerStry, 2020
NonfictionEssayPersonal Essay
Hairclips for Esme
The Healer's Burden, 2020
NonfictionEssayPersonal Essay
Goodbye Stethoscope
The Examined Life Journal, 2022
NonfictionEssayPersonal Essay
This Is For Your Learning
Torrid Literature Journal, 2019
FictionShort StoryLiterary
The Retreat — Evocations
Evocations: a literary and art review, 2020
FictionShort StoryLGBTQ+