Suzanne Koven is a primary care physician and the inaugural writer-in-residence at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She is also a member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School. Her writing has appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Boston Globe, the Lancet, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications, and has been featured on National Public Radio. Her book, Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life was published by W.W. Norton & Co. in May, 2021.