Art Nahill is a Boston-born physician, teacher, social activist and writer living in Auckland, New Zealand. He has published poetry on both sides of the equator, including in Poetry Magazine, Harvard, Review, Poetry NZ, and Landfall among others. He has published 5 books of poetry, including his latest Circumstance and Serendipity out now.

“Never let the truth get in the way of a good poem.”

Art was the co-producer and host of a medical education podcast on clinical reasoning called IMreasoning. In 2025 he also participated in the Hīkoi for Health to catalyse healthcare reform in NZ; a book and documentary on that experience are forthcoming.