Leah Kaminsky is an award-winning physician and writer. She is Poetry and Fiction Editor at the Medical Journal of Australia and Online Editor at Hunger Mountain. She conceived and edited Writer, M.D., an anthology of contemporary doctor-writers. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and was shortlisted in the Faulkner-Wisdom Novel Writing Competition. Leah has been the Damianis' physician since Massimo was born and was the first person to be alerted to the fact that there was some kind of problem when he was an infant. In September, her first novel The Waiting Room, will be published.