Dr Leah Kaminsky, physician and writer

Leah Kaminsky is a rare breed: a medical doctor and an award-winning writer. She combines a career treating patients in a busy general practice clinic, with writing poetry, fiction and non-fiction. In fact, she's been doing it for over three decades – all the while raising three children. Leah's work explores memory, medicine, science, ethics and the end of life.  Her debut novel The Waiting Room won the Voss Literary Prize and was shortlisted for the Helen Asher Award. Her second novel, The Hollow Bones won the 2019 International Book Awards in both Literary Fiction and Historical Fiction categories and the 2019 Best Book Awards for Literary Fiction.