Shalini Rana is a poet from Virginia and an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Arkansas Program in Creative Writing and Translation. Her poems appear in Copihue Poetry, Salt Hill, Pile Press, Rappahannock Review, wildness, Line Rider Press, Feels Blind Literary, and Anti-Heroin Chic. Find her at shalinirana.com.
Dr. Joan Naidorf is an emergency physician, author and speaker located in Alexandria, VA.
Her book, “Changing How we Think About Difficult Patients: a Guide for Physicians and Healthcare Professionals,” is published by the American Association for Physician Leadership.
Cynthia Parker-Ohene is an abolitionist, and therapist. She is an MFA graduate in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California, and the Chester Aaron Scholar for Excellence in Creative Writing. She is a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, winner of the San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Poetry Prize. Her recent work has appeared or forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2022, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily.
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Amy Haddad, PhD, MSN, MFA, FAAN has educated nurses and pharmacists at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska since 1988 where she also held the Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Endowed Chair in the Health Sciences. In addition, Amy served as Director of the Center for Health Policy and Ethics at Creighton University from 2005 – 2018 and now holds the rank of Professor Emerita.
Kim Downey is a seasoned healthcare professional and three time cancer survivor, She has experienced firsthand the challenges facing clinicians, including loss of autonomy, frustrations with the EMR, burnout, and moral injury. Her goal is to assist healthcare systems in creating and maintaining institutional initiatives and policy changes that promote a pervasive culture of caring and physician well-being.
Ms. Jesse Kercheval is a poet, writer, translator and comic artist.
She is also a Creative Writing Professor at UW-Madison and Editor of the Wisconsin Poetry Series
Lane Falcon’s poems have been published in American Poetry Journal, Rhino, Rust & Moth, Spoon River Poetry Review, and many others. Her manuscript “Deep, Blue Odds” was selected as a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press Hudson Prize and the Lightscatter Press Prize, and semi-finalist for the 2022 Tupelo Press Berkshire Prize and the Inaugural Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Prize. She lives in Alexandria, VA with her two children and dog.