My Story

IRIS BROSSARD...

was born in Manhattan in 1950. She is the daughter of the controversial writer Chandler Brossard, and grew up surrounded by crazy writers, artists and other creative misfits.

Iris attended the High School of Music and Art as an art major, but dropped out in her senior year. She subsequently attended SUNY at Old Westbury but after a year, took off for Europe, living in Florence, Italy, and exploring London, Paris, Rome and other European cities.

In 1971, she returned to New York City, where she published book and TV reviews in The Village Voice, and poetry in such literary magazines as Antaeus, Broadway Boogie, Abraxas, The Sun, and others. Her reviews have also appeared in The Denver Post and The Wichita Eagle.

Iris completed a premedical program at Hunter College of CUNY in 1978, and attended medical school at the Universidad de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico, and subsequently transferring to Albany Medical College, graduating in 1985. She did her internship in Internal Medicine at Albany Medical Center, her neurology residency at University of Colorado, and her fellowship in EEG and Epilepsy at the University of Massachusetts-Worcester.

Her career in Neurology spanned three decades, with medical practices in Wichita, Kansas, The University of Pittsburgh, and Centracare Clinic-St Cloud, MN, among others. She retired in 2013.

Iris currently resides in Tampa Bay, Florida, close to her oldest daughter and two granddaughters. She continues to write poetry and is working on a novel.