Clayton Dalton is a physician and writer whose work focuses on the impact of climate change on human health, the therapeutic effects of psychedelic drugs, the corporate financialization of American healthcare, and the interdependence of the world around and within us. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Times, The Guardian, and elsewhere. He completed medical training at Columbia and Harvard, and practices in rural emergency departments in the desert southwest.
At MacDowell, Dalton completed work on a proposal for his essay collection Fever Dreams, wrote, edited, and published two pieces in The New Yorker; and began developing a proposal for his narrative non-fiction book An Atlas of Human Suffering, which focuses on the impact of climate change on human health and disease.
