Zephyr Hameem is a medical student at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. She completed her undergraduate education at Saint Louis University in 2021, where she studied Neuroscience and Creative Writing, and later earned her M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University in 2022. Her works have been published in The Kiln Project and Ripple Magazine. An earnest advocate of exploring creativity in medicine, Zephyr joins the Tendon team with hopes to continue this work and be part of a larger movement to embrace the connections between healthcare and the humanities.