Kristin has a BA in English Literature from the University of Michigan and an MD from Michigan State University. She did her residency at Vanderbilt and is board certified in Emergency Medicine. She lives in Savannah with her husband, a trauma surgeon, and their two children.

Her first novel, THE WONDERS WROUGHT, is “tucked away in a drawer.” She is writing a second novel and continues to publish essays because she believes writing and relating are good medicine.