Mary Pan is a writer and physician with a background in global health and narrative medicine. She received her MD degree from the University of Washington and her Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She writes essays, flash nonfiction, hybrid and experimental forms, and poetry. Particular interests include biculturalism, medical ethics, global health, mental health, motherhood as vocation, and the intersection of religion and science. She teaches narrative medicine writing workshops and facilitates a Literature & Medicine program for medical professionals. She is an AWP Writer to Writer and a Tin House Nonfiction Winter Workshop alum, and received her certification in Media & Medicine from Harvard Medical School. She is the recipient of a 2019 Artist Trust Grants for Artist Projects and a runner up for the 2020 AWP Kurt Brown Prize in Nonfiction. Mary practices family medicine, writes, and teaches in Seattle.

You can find her work in various online and print publications and in undecipherable scribblings in her Moleskine notebook. She is currently working on a book exploring severe mental illness and identity.