Maps Are Lines We Draw: A Road Trip Through Haiti - Paperback

by Allison Coffelt (Author)

After a decade of dreaming, Allison Coffelt arrived in Haiti, ready--she thought--"to learn how much she didn't know" about the Caribbean nation. Traveling the highways with Dr. Jean Gardy Marius, founder of the public health organization OSAPO, she embarked on a life-changing journey that would weave Haiti's proud, tumultuous history and present reality into her life forever.

Author Biography

Allison Coffelt is a writer and teacher working at the intersection of health and humanities. She is the author of the award-winning nonfiction bookMaps Are Lines We Draw: A Road Trip through Haiti. She holds an MS in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University and an MA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Missouri. Her work has been featured in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Los Angeles Review of Books, and British Medical Journal's Medical Humanities. Allison lives in St. Louis, Missouri.