Sona H. Mahal is a proud UCSF RN and Patient Safety Lead Coach. She has been an RN for 20+ years with experience in oncology, bariatric surgery, medical-surgical, neuro intensive care nursing, and patient safety and quality improvement. Improving patient safety is her purpose for being in healthcare.
She likes to hike, meditate and create healthy cooking/baking recipes.
Evelyn M. Potochny, DO, is a physician and former U.S. Navy medical officer living in Pennsylvania. Her work appears in Families, Systems & Health, Hektoen International: A Journal Of Medical Humanities, and Proud to Be: Writing By American Warriors.
Patricia Cannon has been a Registered Nurse at UCSF since 2001. She has worked in cardiac critical care, neuro intensive care, hemeoncology, school nursing, and currently, in research. Her passion is her faith, photography, and the written word in all its forms. Flight: A Letter to My Stepfather was originally published by Coverstory Books by Ian Gouge.
Sister Lou Ella Hickman, OVISS has published many poems and articles. Her book of poetry entitled, she: robed and wordless was published in 2015 by Press 53. She lives in Corpus Christie, Texas.
Jane Schapiro is the author of three volumes of poetry and a nonfiction book. Her poems have appeared in numerous health-related journals including Ars-Medica, The Healing Muse,and JAMA.
Flavian Mark Lupinetti, a poet, fiction writer, and cardiac surgeon, received his MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. His work has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, december, Redivider, Sheila-Na-Gig, and ZYZZYVA. Mark lives in New Mexico.
Katherine DiBella Seluja is the author of three poetry collections, most recently, Point of Entry (UNM Press, 2023) which focuses on issues of immigration and ancestry. Katherine has worked as a nurse practitioner in multiple pediatric settings and currently is employed by Presbyterian Hospital in northern New Mexico. Her website is: katherineseluja.com.
Lucinda Pinchot, RN CWOCRN (retired) from the Yale School of Medicine, started writing poetry and prose in the 1970s. She took a 30-year hiatus from poetry while working in healthcare and is now resuming her love of writing.
Eric Dessner MD is an ophthalmologist in Brooklyn, NY. He is the founder of Medmic.com
Annette Sisson’s poems are published in Valparaiso PR, Birmingham PR, Rust+Moth, Lascaux Review, Cider PR, Glassworks, Aeolian Harp Anthology, and others. Her first book Small Fish in High Branches was published by Glass Lyre (5/22), and she is finishing her second, Winter Sharp with Apples. Her poems have placed in Frontier New Voices, The Fish Anthology, and others; in 2023, two have been nominated for The Pushcart and one for Best of the Net.