AWP 2023
Join me with friends and gifted writers Jay Baruch, Beth Hahn, and David Queen at AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) in Kansas City Feb 8, 2024!
Events
Reading at PT Knitwear March 23rd!
This anthology is a collection of work originally published in The Intima, A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Edited by Donna Bulseco, with a Forward by none other than Dr. Rita Charon! You can buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Where-H...
Join us in Baltimore at -ette review's offsite reading March 4! I'll be reading from my Pushcart-nominated short story "Dear Dolores," about narrative ethics and the need to faithfully represent another person ... as fast as possible.
-ette review is a gorgeous litmag edited by Beth Hahn and Nora Maynard. They publish flash fiction, micro, and prose poetry, plus a super-cool podcast called "pod-ette" which is hosted by Melanie Hoopes, with music by Chester Jankowski. Beth Hahn does all the artwork and gives the originals to each writer! I framed mine. Check out -ette review here: https://www.ettereview.com/
Delivering the Harriet W. Sheridan Lecture, “Your Heart’s Field: How Story Connects Us To Our Work In Medicine” at the Stepping Up Ceremony at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Feb 2026.
This celebration marks a meaningful transition when students move from classroom learning into clinical practice and begin shaping who they will become as physicians. THANK YOU for inviting me to my beloved Alma Mater (Comp Lit '97!) to share this moment with students and families.
Speaking about narrative medicine at the AAP national meeting, Sept 2025
Patient Advocate Foundation’s virtual event, Hear Me Now: Innovative Storytelling in Uncertain Times, on Thursday, May 22 from 12:00pm -3:30pm ET.
A powerful conference about the intersections of story and health equity. RSVP here: https://www.patientadvocate.or...
SoMe Docs Writers Conference for Healthcare Professionals
I remember my first writer's conference for healthcare professionals. I sat in the front of the room and took copious notes. I kept thinking, I hope I can make this happen-- writing and medicine together. I loved being part of the inaugural SoMe docs conference in 2024, and I'm returning on May 4, 2025! You can register for the conference here.
How can fiction express trauma, both lived and witnessed? From “telling it slant” to employing metaphor and rhythm, to imbuing the very landscape with disturbance, fiction permits us to animate trauma in amazing ways. Drawing upon our collective experience as writers, editors, emergency room physicians, and members of the Latinx diaspora, we will describe our own approaches and that of other authors to writing about trauma.