Dana Mashoian Walrath is an award-winning Armenian-American author, artist, and medical anthropologist whose work explores healing, memory, and social justice. She earned a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, later conducting research as a Fulbright Scholar in Armenia. Walrath is widely recognized for her graphic medicine memoir Aliceheimer’s, which details her mother’s journey with dementia, and Like Water on Stone, a verse novel about the Armenian genocide. An Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute, she lives in Vermont and speaks internationally on the restorative power of narrative.
