Thomas Mampalam is a board certified neurosurgeon who has practiced in Northern California for over thirty years. He writes poetry and short stories informed by his medical practice, immigration, and family experiences. He has published poems in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Neurology, the Healing Muse, Intima Journal of Narrative Medicine, Ailment: Chronicles of Illness Narratives, the Avalon Literary Review, California Quarterly, the Cortland Review, Metonym, Good Works Review, and Iris Literary Journal.
