Rafael Campo teaches and practices general internal medicine
at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center in Boston, where his medical practice serves mostly
Latinos, gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered people, and
people with HIV infection. He is the author of The Other
Man Was Me, which won the 1993 National Poetry Series
Award; What the Body Told, which won a Lambda Literary
Award for Poetry; and The Desire to Heal, which also
won a Lambda Literary Award, for memoir. His collection
Diva was a finalist for the National Book Critics
Circle Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and Lambda Literary
Awards for poetry. His newest collection of poetry is Landscape
with Human Figure, and his most recent book, The
Healing Art: A Doctor's Black Bag of Favorite Poems,
was published in 2003. He is a recipient of the Annual Achievement
Award from the National Hispanic Academy of Arts and Sciences,
and lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
