Xinran Maria Xiang is a Chinese-American writer, mother, and pediatric neurologist in Portland, Oregon, where she now calls home. Her literary work has appeared in The New Yorker, Glint Literary Journal, Defenestration, and MUTHA. Her medical humanities essays and editorials have appeared in JAMA Neurology and KevinMD. She loves to spend time outdoors with her daughter to observe the living and the Earth, and sometimes, she paints.
