Dr. Kelly Anderson

Dr. Kelly Anderson is an award-winning academic physician with fellowships in emergency medicine and HIV. She completed the Bookends Novel Fellowship (under Meg Wolitzer and Christina Baker Kline), the Gateless Writing Academy, and is a certified Gateless writing teacher. She led writing courses for over two thousand women inside her award-winning nonprofit, Understory, designed to bring doctors back to themselves and their instincts, and she built the clinical team at Felix Health to connect over a million Canadians with primary healthcare. Kelly is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto and has taught ethics, community, and belonging for over a decade. She spent her childhood swimming the beaches of British Columbia, and now lives in Ontario with her husband and two boys.