{"id":14512,"date":"2025-12-08T17:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/?page_id=14512"},"modified":"2025-12-08T17:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:29:19","slug":"jacob-m-appel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/jacob-m-appel\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob M. Appel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"14513\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/jacob-m-appel\/appel-photo_bw\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Appel-Photo_bw-scaled.jpg?fit=1920%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 8&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1558626883&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.99&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Jacob M. Appel\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Jacob M. Appel&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Appel-Photo_bw-scaled.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Appel-Photo_bw.jpg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Appel-Photo_bw-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Appel-Photo_bw-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Appel-Photo_bw-scaled.jpg?resize=113%2C150&amp;ssl=1 113w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Appel-Photo_bw-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Appel-Photo_bw-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Appel-Photo_bw-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Jacob M. Appel is currently Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, where he is Director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry, Associate Director of the Academy for Medicine and the Humanities, and Medical Director of the Mental Health Clinic at the East Harlem Health Outreach Program.\u00a0 Jacob is the author of five literary novels, ten short story collections, an essay collection, a cozy mystery, a thriller, a volume of poems and a compendium of dilemmas in medical ethics.\u00a0\u00a0 He is a graduate of \u00a0Columbia University&#8217;s College of Physicians and Surgeons, \u00a0Harvard Law School and the MFA program in creative writing at New York University.\u00a0 For many years prior to joining the psychiatry faculty at Mount Sinai, he taught bioethics at Brown University, and continues to do so at Albany Medical College. From 2000 to 2025, he was a judge for the National Book Critics Circle Awards.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Regal House Publishing is proud to bring you Jacob Appel&#8217;s <em>The Enchanting Miss Baker <\/em>in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob M. Appel is currently Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, where he is Director of Ethics Education in Psychiatry, Associate Director of the Academy for Medicine and the Humanities, and Medical Director of the Mental Health Clinic at the East Harlem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-14512","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9DpGh-3M4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14378,"url":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/2025-petrichor-prize-longlist\/","url_meta":{"origin":14512,"position":0},"title":"2025 Petrichor Prize Longlist","author":"Jaynie","date":"August 30, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"We are delighted to announce this year's longlist for our Petrichor Prize: The Moms by KCTempest: The Story of Frances Anne Kemble by Melissa PritchardArmadillo Massacre Number Three by Katherine GiuffreIn the House of False Causes by Philip GolabukOur End is Where We Start by John TarltonThe Laundry Room by\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/petrichorprize.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/petrichorprize.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/petrichorprize.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regalhousepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/petrichorprize.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4616,"url":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/amy-banks\/","url_meta":{"origin":14512,"position":1},"title":"Amy Banks","author":"Jaynie","date":"February 28, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I never imagined I would be a writer. 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