Biography
Felice Aull was born in Vienna during the Nazi era and immigrated to the US with her parents. She holds a PhD in basic medical sciences and a more recent MA in humanities and social thought. While a full-time faculty member at New York University School of Medicine, she founded a widely used online resource, The Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database and taught courses on borderlands in healthcare. She is now adjunct in the Division of Medical Humanities in NYU's Department of Medicine. She started writing poetry in her 60s and is published in many print and online journals. Her work was nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize. She has a full poetry collection, Mandatory Evacuation Zone (2017) and an earlier chapbook, The Music Behind Me (2012), both published by Kelsay Books. In 2007 she was a finalist for the Margie Editor's Prize Best Poem.
Her scholarly articles are published in The Journal of Medical Humanities, Narrative, and in other professional journals. She serves as contributing editor of the journal, Literature and Medicine and reviews poetry for The Bellevue Literary Review. She lives in New York City.
Her scholarly articles are published in The Journal of Medical Humanities, Narrative, and in other professional journals. She serves as contributing editor of the journal, Literature and Medicine and reviews poetry for The Bellevue Literary Review. She lives in New York City.