Rafael Campo
Rafael Campo
A graduate
of Amherst
College and
Harvard
Medical
School, he
currently
teaches and
practices
general internal medicine at Harvard Medical School
and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston,
where his medical practice serves mostly Latinos, gay/
lesbian/bisexual/transgendered people, and people
with HIV infection.
He is the author of The Other Man Was Me (Arte Público Press, Houston, 1994), which won the 1993 National Poetry Series Award; What the Body Told (Duke University Press, Durham, 1996), which won a Lambda Literary Award for Poetry; and The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor’s Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire (W.W. Norton, New York, 1997), a collection of essays now available in paperback under the title The Desire to Heal, which also won a Lambda Literary Award, for memoir. His more recent works include The Healing Art: A Doctor’s Black Bag of Poetry (2003) and The Enemy (2007).