Certified Listener Poet,
Cohort 9 Fall 2024
Erin “Fitz” FitzGerald is a human who believes deeply in the healing power of generous listening. She is a hospice and palliative medicine physician and was an instructor and director of Healer's Art, a medical school course created by Rachel Remen, which utilizes generous listening as a skill to be with others' suffering and humanize medicine.
She has used poetry as a way to make meaning and create beauty out of suffering, writing devotional poems for patients who have touched her deeply. She uses the Listener Poet practice as a legacy tool and as a way for caregivers and survivors to feel supported, heard, and deeply seen.
Fitz lives in New Mexico with her partner, son, and their pitbull Walter, and spends as much time as she can on the trails of the Sandia Mountains.
