Walter M. Robinson is a writer and physician in Massachusetts. He is an editor for EastOver Press and Cutleaf. Robinson is the winner of the River Teeth Book Prize for 2020. His collection of essays, What Cannot Be Undone—True Stories of a Life in Medicine, was published by University of New Mexico Press in Spring 2022.
He has been a fellow at MacDowell and Yaddo and was a PEN-New England "New Discovery in Non-Fiction.” His research has been supported by the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, and the Project on Death in America/Open Society Institute.
While in residence, he worked on a series of essays on medicine.
