Raj Telhan is a physician and writer who works at the intersection of literature, medicine, and culture. He is the author of essays, longform journalism, and criticism bridging science and the humanities.

His writing appears in The American Scholar, The Guardian, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, where he serves as a Contributing Editor and regular essayist. His VQR essay, “Begin Cutting,” was anthologized in Best American Science and Nature Writing alongside Oliver Sacks and Elizabeth Kolbert, among others. Honors also include the Smith-Shanubi Scholarship at the New York State Writers Institute, the Longreads Editors’ Pick, and the Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction for his VQR cover story, “Foreign Bodies.”