Christopher Adamson is a sociologist and a fiction writer. His essay, “Existential and clinical uncertainty in the medical encounter: an idiographic account of an illness trajectory defined by inflammatory bowel disease and avascular necrosis,” was published in the Sociology of Health and Illness (Volume 19, March 1997). He is also the author of a novella, The Road to Jewel Beach (Exile Editions, 2004). His short stories appear in Ontario Review, Exile Literary Quarterly and Hart House Review.

Eugenia G. Amor is currently enrolled in her fourth year of Medicine at the University of Valladolid (Spain). While she has decided to follow a career in sciences, she believes in the importance of the arts and is passionate about incorporating them into medicine. Back in 2014, she was involved in the project "Equipo MNCARS" at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid. Her artwork “Gray Matter” appeared in the Fall 2016 Intima. Find out more about her work as an illustrator on her blog, https://stmkblog.wordpress.com/

Mikki Aronoff is a New Mexico poet who has published in on-line and print journals. She worked many years in pediatric and adult hematology-oncology as a patient services manager and with creative arts therapies. Now retired, her passions are playing with words and advocating for animals.

Kany Aziz is a third-year Internal Medicine and Pediatric resident at West Virginia University. She is originally from Florida where she completed medical school at Florida State University. Aziz hopes to one day work for an international health organization and complete a Palliative Care Fellowship. 

Patricia Brenneman is a spiritual director, offering spiritual guidance in the Jungian tradition. She specializes in grief and loss, and facilitates groups that make use of sandplay as a contemplative, expressive practice to explore grief as sacred territory. She is a graduate of a two-year program at the Chicago Jung Institute, and is currently in her third year of the Christine Center's Spiritual Deepening for Global Transformation program. Patricia is a two-time cancer survivor, at ages 27 and 52, and lives in Minneapolis. She has used writing and collage over the years to explore body and illness, nature and landscape, dreams and meditation, approaching with reverence image as soul expression. Patricia can be reached through her website, www.patriciaspiritualdirection.com

Phoebe Cheng is a medical student at the University of British Columbia (UBC) Vancouver Fraser Medical Program, in the class of 2018. Before entering medicine, she completed a B.Sc. in Biology at UBC with a minor in Arts. Through her visual and literary art creations, she reflects on life’s heartfelt moments, inspirational lessons, and memorable journeys.

Janet Cincotta, MD, is a graduate of SUNY Upstate Medical Center. Dr Cincotta is a published author and physician with over thirty years of experience in family medicine. She is a contributor to Empower—Women’s Stories of Breakthrough, Discovery and Triumph, and her short stories have appeared in The Storyteller Magazine, US Catholic, Central PA Magazine, and the 2016 Writers Digest anthology, Show Me Your Shorts. She is a member of Pennwriters, a statewide association of writers from Pennsylvania and around the country, and she publishes a weekly blog titled “storytelling~the healing path” at www.thenarrativepath.blogspot.com.

Melissa Cronin’s work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Jerusalem Post, Narratively Magazine, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and literary journals such as Saranac Review, River Teeth Journal, Under the Gum Tree, and Brevity. Her writing has received special mention in Hunger Mountain Journal, and she is a recipient of a merit grant from the Vermont Studio Center. She is currently completing a memoir. Melissa holds a BS in Nursing from Boston University and an MFA in creative nonfiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts. melissacronin.com

Lala Tanmoy Das is a full-time healthcare and pharmaceutical consultant. He resides in New York City and is an enthusiast of short form poetry. His poems have appeared in several journals including Thought Catalog, Allegro and Chelsea Station.

Dylan D. Debelis is a founding editor of Pelorus Press, publisher, poet, and performer based out of New York City. He is an ordained Unitarian Universalist Minister and serves as a hospital chaplain. Dylan has poetry published or forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, [TAB] Literary Review, [apt] Poetry Review, and others. His first full-length book of poetry entitled 'The Garage? Just Torch It' is out now through Vine Leaves Press and was a Hoffer Award Finalist.

Jake Drobner is a recent graduate of Columbia University, where he received a B.A. in Neuroscience & Behavior. He is currently working at a fine dining restaurant in New York City while he applies to medical school. Outside of writing and reading about Narrative Medicine, he enjoys snowboarding, crossword puzzles, and anything Scandinavian.

Lisa Kerr Dunn is a Professor in the Writing Center at the Medical University of South Carolina, where she is also Director of the new Office of Humanities. She edited the collection Mysterious Medicine: The Doctor-Scientist Tales of Hawthorne and Poe and is the author of a new young readers' chapter book, Dreaming with Animals: Anna Hyatt Huntington and Brookgreen Gardens. She is at work on a poetry collection about her experiences as a cervical cancer survivor.

Josephine Ensign is professor of nursing at the University of Washington in Seattle where she teaches health policy, community health, and health humanities. She received her BA from Oberlin College, her masters in nursing from the Medical College of Virginia, and her doctorate in public health from Johns Hopkins University. Ensign has worked as a family nurse practitioner and health services researcher for the past three decades, focusing on primary health care for homeless adolescents and adults in the U.S., as well as in Thailand, Venezuela, and New Zealand. She is the author of numerous academic and narrative medicine journal articles, as well as the narrative policy book Catching Homelessness: A Nurse’s Story of Falling Through the Safety Net.

Molly Fels is a fourth year medical student. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including Circle Show, Thirteen Ways, and the Icarus Anthology and has been the recipient of an honorable mention in the William Carlos Williams medical student poetry competition. She is interested in the study and experience of memory.

Bill Fyfe is a fourth year medical student at the University of Massachusetts. He graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 2009 with a degree in government and subsequently served as a deck watch officer aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter MIDGETT in Seattle. He plans to pursue a career in emergency medicine.

Adriana Garriga-Lopez is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Kalamazoo College in Michigan. She is also a poet, muralist, and soprano. Adriana’s research focuses on epidemics as events that make visible the workings of colonial power, race, gender, and sexuality in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. She painted this portrait of Fatu Kekula after reading a newspaper article detailing how the young student nursed 3 of her infected family members back to health during the 2014-15 outbreak of Ebola in Liberia using very limited means. In the portrait, she is wearing a black plastic bag on her head, exam gloves, and a facemask. These were some of the protective measures she used while caring for the sick. The canvas is available for purchase from the artist. All proceeds from the sale will be donated directly to Fatu Kekula herself as she pursues graduate education in nursing. Interested parties contact agarriga@kzoo.edu.

Jen Hartmark-Hill is a Family Medicine physician, medical educator and research mentor. She is the director for the Narrative Medicine & Health Humanities Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix.

Rohini Harvey studied anthropology at Amherst College and attended the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Now a hospital-based doctor practicing internal medicine and pediatrics in Western Massachusetts, she was unexpectedly diagnosed with a serious illness, which forced her to straddle the line between physician and patient.

Kirk Hathaway, graduate of the Master’s Playwriting Program at San Francisco State University, is a previous recipient of a Showcase Writers Scholarship and Showcase Theatre Award with works produced in California and Ohio, and in collaboration with The Lancaster Chorale, Grammy Award Composer Robert Page, and a protégé of the late Marcel Marceau. He is a recipient of grants from Poets & Writers, the Ohio Humanities Council, and CATCO. Hathaway taught college writing and literature for over 20 years. After being left for dead in a head-on collision, Hathaway retreated from playwriting for more intimate voices in poetry. His most recent poems are published in Peacock Journal, Steam Ticket Journal, Circle Show, Allegro & Adagio, with prose in Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. 

Andrew Hincapie received an MFA from Texas State University, where he was co-editor of Front Porch Journal and Southwestern American Literature. His work has been featured or is forthcoming in Yes Yes Books’ Vinyl Poetry, The New Guard Review, Opossum, and The Written River, and he was a finalist for the 2017 Knightville Poetry Prize. He lives in Colorado with his wife and his dog, Rocko.

Andrew Hincapie received an MFA from Texas State University, where he was co-editor of Front Porch Journal and Southwestern American Literature. His work has been featured or is forthcoming in Yes Yes Books’ Vinyl Poetry, The New Guard Review, Opossum, and The Written River, and he was a finalist for the 2017 Knightville Poetry Prize. He lives in Colorado with his wife and his dog, Rocko.

Sheila Kelly writes poems and plays and leads writing workshops in libraries, community centers, art galleries, and most recently, at the University of Pittsburgh’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. She trusts the special magic of generative writing in groups; writing together as a kind of deep play that energizes and connects writers as human beings and as artists. A retired psychotherapist, Sheila has faith in the healing qualities of undefended speech that poetry brings and she believes making art is a birthright and not a luxury. Her work has been published in many journals and anthologies, most recently in The Comstock Review, Paterson Literary Review and Pittsburgh Poetry Review. Sheila lives in the Greenfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh with her husband, two cats and two chickens.

Catherine Klatzker is a writer and RN in Los Angeles, California, retired after twenty-two years in pediatric intensive care. Her essay “Al Chet” was 2014 nonfiction winner in Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature. Klatzker’s work has appeared in Intima, Fall 2013 “Range of Vision” & Spring 2015 “What We See When We See Each Other”; Emrys Journal; Lime Hawk Literary Journal; The Examined Life Literary Journal, and the anthologies Same Time Next Week, and Parts Unbound, both in 2015. Her book-in-progress was shortlisted for the 2015 Mary Roberts Rinehart Nonfiction Prize from Stillhouse Press. 

Olaf Kroneman graduated from the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine with an MD. Dr. Kroneman interned at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, then attended the University of Virginia to complete a residency in internal medicine.  He completed a fellowship in nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His work has appeared in literary magazines. My story, “Fight Night,” won the Winning Writers Sports Fiction and Essay Contest, and “The Recidivist,” won the Writer’s Digest short story contest. His essay “Detroit Golden Gloves” was selected as Editor’s Choice by inscape, honoring the top nonfiction piece. In 2010, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for the story, “A Battlefield Decision.” OlafKroneman.com

Sara Lukinson is a three-time Emmy award winning writer and documentary filmmaker best known for her biographical films of artists, including the films she produced for the “Kennedy Center Honors” for thirty years. Her work has been featured on network specials, PBS and HBO. She’s written for many national cultural events including New York City’s annual 9/11 Ceremonies at Ground Zero and edited “September Morning,” a collection of the poetry she used in the 9/ll Ceremonies. Her personal essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Nexttribe. She will be teaching a course at NYU in reading autobiography, what she calls, inside the heart and soul of another. She lives in New York City.

John C. Mannone has work in Blue Fifth Review, New England Journal of Medicine, Peacock Journal, Gyroscope Review, Baltimore Review, Pedestal, Pirene's Fountain and others. He’s the recipient of the 2017 Jean Ritchie Fellowship in Appalachian literature and two Weymouth writing residencies. He has three poetry collections: Apocalypse (Alban Lake Publishing) won 3rd place for the 2017 Elgin Book Award; Disabled Monsters (The Linnet’s Wings Press) featured at the 2016 Southern Festival of Books; Flux Lines (Celtic Cat Publishing). He’s been awarded the 2017 HWA Scholarship, two Joy Margrave Awards for Nonfiction, and nominated for Pushcart, Rhysling, and Best of the Net awards. He edits poetry for Abyss & Apex, Silver Blade, and Liquid Imagination. He’s a professor of physics near Knoxville, TN. http://jcmannone.wordpress.com  

Larry Oakner is a poet whose poems have appeared recently in Tricycle: Buddhist News, PROVOKR.com, The Shambhala Times, The Jewish Literary Review, Lost Coast Review, Home Planet News and Mystic Nebula. Earlier, his work appeared in Mobius, Long Island Quarterly, CCAR Journal,  Jewish Spectator, Kerem, SPSM&H, MARILYN,  He is also the author of a chapbook, Sitting Still, and his essays on poets Jack Spicer and William Carlos Williams appeared in Manroot and Thoth: Graduate Studies in English (Syracuse University). Oakner has a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from UCLA, and works as a branding consultant in New York city.

Kendra Peterson, MD is a neurologist in Palo Alto, California, and a member of the Pegasus Physician Writers at Stanford.

Schneider K. Rancy is a Haitian-American graduate of Columbia University, where he studied English and Comparative Literature and Biology. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Columbia New Poetry, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Ars Medica, and Apogee. He is a medical student in New York City. His editor-reviewed articles on nerve and wrist reconstruction have been published in the Journal of Hand Surgery (American Volume), the Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume), and the Journal of Wrist Surgery.

Anna Reid is a writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Claudius Speaks, My Itchy Travel Feet, Nashville Fit, Cold Creek Review and others. She is currently working on a memoir, Prone to Wander: How Solo Travel Changed My World. Reid lives with her husband, Jason, in Nashville. www.annareid.me.

Geoffrey Rubin went to medical school, internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at Columbia University. Previous narratives and poems have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA Cardiology, Chest, Adelaide, The Healing Muse, and Blood and Thunder.

Martin Seneviratne, MD, is currently the Digital Health Fellow at Stanford Medicine X and a Master’s candidate in biomedical informatics at Stanford University. Dr. Martin is an Australian physician who completed his undergraduate (Physics) and medical school at the University of Sydney, followed by a residency in internal medicine at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

Sydney Sheltz-Kempf is a Medical Technologist at Covance Central Laboratory Services where she performs genotyping assays and companion diagnostic testing.  Her previous work in Literary Darwinist criticism as applied to "The Count of Monte Cristo" was published in Purdue University's Journal of Undergraduate Research in 2015. An aspiring PhD student, she has presented her research on Segregation Distortion’s role in spermatogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster at Butler University's Undergraduate Research Conference in 2016. A previous poetry chapbook (which also serves as her memoir) is scheduled to be published by The Poet's Haven in Spring 2018. 

Alina Siddiqui is a senior at Barnard College studying neuroscience and race & ethnicity. She is interested in the intersection of medicine and racial and social equity, and is passionate about using art as an agent of change and a promoter of wellness.

Billie Holladay Skelley earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Working as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, she provided postoperative care for cardiothoracic surgery patients. She also taught nursing students and worked in curriculum development. Now retired from nursing, she enjoys writing. Her work has appeared in several magazines, journals, and anthologies in print and online—including Heart & Lung: The Journal of Critical Care, American Journal of Nursing, Missouri Nurse, Today’s Caregiver Magazine, PreMedLife, Harvard Magazine, Well Versed, Almanac for Farmers & City Folk, Space Review, American Aviation Historical Society Journal, VietNow National Magazine, and Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors. An award-winning author, she also has written books for children and teens.

Greg Stidham is a retired pediatric intensivist (ICU physician) currently living in Kingston, Ontario, with his wife Pam and their two foundling "canine kids." Dr. Stidham's passion for medicine had yielded in retirement to his other lifelong passion, literature and creative writing.

Nathan Moses Szajnberg, MD graduated from the University of Chicago College and Medical School, where he studied with Saul Bellow (Joyce and Conrad) among many others. He has written three books on development (Reluctant Warriors: Israelis Suspended Between Rome and Jerusalem; Sheba and Solomon’s Return: Ethiopian Children in Israel; and Lives Across Time (with Henry Massie) and edited a book on Bruno Bettelheim’s work (Educating the Emotions). His novel, JerusaLand: an Insignificant Death, will be published this fall.  He lives in Palo Alto with his wife Yikun, Natti, Didi (and soon to be, Uri).

Ali M.Tahvildari, MD, is a radiologist at the VA Palo Alto and an affiliated Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he also serves as Associate Program Director of the Radiology residency program. He is a member of the Pegasus Physician Writers at Stanford and enjoys writing fiction and poetry.

Tharshika Thangarasa is currently a daughter, sister, friend, amateur artist and third year medical student at the University of Ottawa. She completed her undergraduate degree in Neuroscience at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. She has an insatiable hunger for knowledge and a love of trying new things. She hopes to travel more, inspire others and positively influence the lives of many as a future physician.

Eileen Valinoti BSN, M.A. is retired after a varied career in oncology, nursing education and school nursing. Her essays have appeared in the following journals: "Hospital Corners" in Pulse, "First Day on the Wards" in ARS MEDICA, "A Mysterious Illness" and "Accident" in The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, "Medication Nurse" in Blood and Thunder, "Night Duty" in The Healing Muse, and "The Cancer Unit" in Confrontation. Several pieces were included in the following anthologies: "First Day on the Wards" in Body and Soul: Narratives of Healingfrom ARS MEDICA, "A Silent Woman" in Meditations on Hope and "Hospital Corners" in Pulse- Voices from the Heart of Medicine: Editors' Picks: A Third Anthology.

Dr. Amelia van der Merwe has worked in the area of violence and its psychological consequences since 1999. Her research has focused on community violence, intimate partner violence, and ritual abuse and its effects on psychological outcomes. She has worked at the University of Cape Town (SA), the Policy Research Bureau (UK), the Human Sciences Research Council (SA) and the University of Stellenbosch (SA) in both research and teaching capacities. She has published four books, the most recent, "Shattered but Unbroken: Voices of Triumph and Testimony". She has also written many book chapters and journal articles on the effects of violence and abuse, specifically on child and adolescent emotional and developmental outcomes. She is currently doing post-doctoral research at the University of Stellenbosch.

Ivana Viani is a fourth-year medical student at Harvard Medical School, applying for residency in psychiatry. Her visual artwork combines photographic and graphic design elements to create unique visions of the interplay of medical science with the worlds both witnessed and imagined.

Hannah Wellman is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She is currently interviewing for residency positions in the field of Child Neurology. Hannah graduated from Colorado College with a BA in Molecular Biology and a minor in English Literature. She is particularly interested in the opportunity to enhance medical practice through integration with the arts and humanities.

Laura Anne White works as a registered nurse on an inpatient adult oncology and hospice unit at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Texas.  Her writing and artwork have been featured in Hektoen and Recovering the Self. She lives in Minnesota with her plants and bicycle.

Heather Wickless is an Associate Professor of Dermatology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. She is interested in medical education, the relationship between art and medicine, and the role of art in the early development of dermatology as a medical specialty. This painting "The Syphilid" is inspired by this relationship: it is a composite of wallpaper patterns from the 1800’s superimposed on an image of a patient affected by syphilis from the same time period. Dr. Wickless authors a blog “save the moulages” dedicated to dermatologic history.

Kriota Willberg uses comics, needlework, historical studies, bioethics, and her experiences as a massage therapist and health science educator to explore body/science narratives. Her minicomics series include Pictorial Anatomy and Pathology Laffs. In April 2018 Uncivilized Books will publish her injury care and prevention for cartoonists manual, Draw Stronger. Her comics appear in: SubCultures, and Awsome Possum 3, 4PANEL, Strumpet 5, Comics for Choice; the up-coming Graphic Canon; as well as the journals Intima and Broken Pencil. Willberg is the inaugural Artist In Residence at the New York Academy of Medicine Library. For more: KriotaWelt.blogspot.com.

Meagan Wu is an undergraduate at Stanford University majoring in Art Practice and minoring in Biology with premedical studies. In addition to portraiture and figure drawing, she is interested in clinical anatomy and the intersection of art and medicine. Meagan believes that exploration of the human body and its distortions in figure and space shows how physical abnormalities and illness should not just be tied to disease and death, but viewed as a process of self-dissection. Meagan’s artwork has been exhibited at the Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford Art Gallery, and the Gunn Foyer Gallery of McMurtry, as well published in a peer-reviewed medical journal. In her free time, she enjoys photography, travel, and playing the cello.