2016 Alumna
Cottage: Meadow House
BIO: Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, medical doctor, and author. A fiction fellow of the Kundiman and Tin House workshops, she is the author of four books including Muslim Women Are Everything, Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them, and If God is a Virus, poems based on her reporting on the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
Yasmin is a medical analyst for CNN and a correspondent for Conde Nast Entertainment. Her writing appears in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, WIRED, Scientific American, and other outlets. She teaches science storytelling and health journalism at Stanford University where she is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative and clinical assistant professor of medicine.