Rosalind Kaplan is a physician and author in Philadelphia. Her essays can be found in a smattering of literary journals including Across The Margin, El Portal, Herstory, SLAB and Vagabond City. Her most recent memoir, Still Healing: A Doctor's Notes on the Magic and Misery of a Life in Medicine was released in January 2025. She teaches narrative medicine and medical memoir at Thomas Jefferson University/Sidney Kimmel School of Medicine. She earned her MFA at Lesley University in 2020.
Books
Selected work
I Won't Waste Your Time
The Ignatian Literary Magazine, 2023
A Wedding
El Portal, 2023
Return of the Day
Green Hills Literary Lantern, 2023
Heart Dissection
Vagabond City Literature, 2023
Crone Goddess
Across the Margin, 2023
Like Really Crazy Hair
The Galway Review, 2024
You've Got to Be Taught
Caveat Lector, 2024
Sugar
Open Ceilings Magazine, 2024
Indeterminate
BULL lit mag, 2026
The Assignment
Black Sheep, 2026
Someone I Don't Know
SLAB Literary Magazine, 2025



