Doris Iarovici grew up in New York City after arriving there at age 5 from Romania. She began to publish poetry and essays in Seventeen Magazine at age 15, and further developed her love of writing while a student of Frank McCourt. She continued to write while pursuing her medical degree at Yale, and her work has appeared in Newsweek, Health, Parents, and the New York Times. Her fiction has been published in the Crescent Review and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her first book, American Dreaming and Other Stories, was named 2005 winner of the Novello Literary Award. She lives in Durham, NC, where she is a practicing psychiatrist at Duke University.
Doris Iarovici grew up in New York City after arriving there at age 5 from Romania. She began to publish poetry and essays in Seventeen Magazine at age 15, and further developed her love of writing while a student of Frank McCourt. She continued to write while pursuing her medical degree at Yale, and her work has appeared in Newsweek, Health, Parents, and the New York Times. Her fiction has been published in the Crescent Review and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her first book, American Dreaming and Other Stories, was named 2005 winner of the Novello Literary Award. She lives in Durham, NC, where she is a practicing psychiatrist at Duke University.