This chapter profiles Dr. Christine Montross, a psychiatrist and writer who bridges medicine and humanities through literary explorations of mortality, mental illness, and incarceration. After earning degrees in French literature and environmental science from University of Michigan and an MFA in poetry (1998), she taught high school before beginning medical school at Brown University at age 28 (Montross, Christine Montross [Official website]. https://christinemontross.com/ , n.d.; Klein, The madness of prison. University of Michigan Alumni Association. https://alumni.umich.edu/michigan-alum/the-madness-of-prison/ , 2020, August 6). She graduated in 2006 and completed psychiatry residency in 2010 (Montross, Christine Montross [Official website]. https://christinemontross.com/ , n.d.). Dr. Montross’ debut memoir “Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab” (2007) became a New York Times Editors’ Choice (Montross, Christine Montross [Official website]. https://christinemontross.com/ , n.d.; Klein, The madness of prison. University of Michigan Alumni Association. https://alumni.umich.edu/michigan-alum/the-madness-of-prison/ , 2020, August 6; Montross, Body of work: meditations on mortality from the human anatomy lab. Penguin Books, New York, 2007). Her second book “Falling Into the Fire” (2014) examined psychiatric patients in crisis (Montross, Christine Montross [Official website]. https://christinemontross.com/ , n.d.; Montross, Falling into the fire: a psychiatrist’s encounters with the mind in crisis. Penguin, 2014), while her Guggenheim Fellowship-supported “Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration” (2020) investigated mental illness in the criminal justice system, becoming a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist (Montross, Christine Montross [Official website]. https://christinemontross.com/ , n.d.; Montross, Waiting for an echo: the madness of American incarceration. Penguin Books, New York, 2020.). As an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Brown and staff psychiatrist at Butler Hospital, Dr. Montross co-directs the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Scholarly Concentration, integrating literature into medical education (Montross, Christine Montross [Official website]. https://christinemontross.com/ , n.d.; Orenstein, Two professors win Guggenheim fellowships. Brown University. https://archive2.news.brown.edu/2007-2015/articles/2015/04/guggenheims.html , 2015; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Christine Montross. https://www.gf.org/fellows/christine-montross/ , 2015).

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This chapter profiles Dr. Christine Montross, a psychiatrist and writer who bridges medicine and humanities through literary explorations of mortality, mental illness, and incarceration. After earning degrees in French literature and environmental science from University of Michigan and an MFA in poetry (1998), she taught high school before beginning medical school at Brown University at age 28 (Montross, Christine Montross [Official website]. https://christinemontross.com/ , n.d.; Klein, The madness of prison. University of Michigan Alumni Association. https://alumni.umich.edu/michigan-alum/the-madness-of-prison/ , 2020, August 6). She graduated in 2006 and completed psychiatry residency in 2010 (Montross, Christine Montross [Official website]. https://christinemontross.com/ , n.d.). Dr. Montross’ debut memoir “Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab” (2007) became a New York Times Editors’ Choice (Montross, Christine Montross [Official website]. https://christinemontross.com/ , n.d.; Klein, The madness of prison. University of Michigan Alumni Association. https://alumni.umich.edu/michigan-alum/the-madness-of-prison/ , 2020, August 6; Montross, Body of work: meditations on mortality from the human anatomy lab. Penguin Books, New York, 2007). Her second book “Falling Into the Fire” (2014) examined psychiatric patients in crisis (Montross, Christine Montross [Official website]. https://christinemontross.com/ , n.d.; Montross, Falling into the fire: a psychiatrist’s encounters with the mind in crisis. Penguin, 2014), while her Guggenheim Fellowship-supported “Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration” (2020) investigated mental illness in the criminal justice system, becoming a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist (Montross, Christine Montross [Official website]. https://christinemontross.com/ , n.d.; Montross, Waiting for an echo: the madness of American incarceration. Penguin Books, New York, 2020.). As an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Brown and staff psychiatrist at Butler Hospital, Dr. Montross co-directs the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Scholarly Concentration, integrating literature into medical education (Montross, Christine Montross [Official website]. https://christinemontross.com/ , n.d.; Orenstein, Two professors win Guggenheim fellowships. Brown University. https://archive2.news.brown.edu/2007-2015/articles/2015/04/guggenheims.html , 2015; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Christine Montross. https://www.gf.org/fellows/christine-montross/ , 2015).