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Treatment for Chronic Pain

Erin Greenhalgh is a writer, collage artist, photographer, and the author of Specimen, a zine about the power of attention and the natural world. Works of hers have also appeared in Psaltery and Lyre and Sweet Lit. You can find her work at indie bookstores in Denver.

Ars Poetica After an Abnormal Mammogram

Sara Henning is an assistant professor of English at Marshall University.

This poem was first published in
Sweet Lit.

It will also appear in the forthcoming collection of poetry entitled “Burn” published by the Southern
Illinois University Press (2024).

Re-Radiance

This poem was originally published in the Radar Poetry Journal.

Amy Miller’s writing has appeared in Barrow Street, Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, Nimrod, Rattle, RHINO, Terrain, Tupelo Quarterly, Willow Springs, ZYZZYVA, Fine Gardening, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and many editions of the Poet’s Market. She is the editor-in-chief of the small boutique publisher Cyclone Press.

Ms. Amy Miller can be reached at:

http://writers-island.blogspot.com/

Doctor, Doctor:

River Elizabeth Hall (she/her) is a poet and naturalist with degrees from Fairhaven College and Antioch University Seattle. Her work has appeared in Bear Review, Main Street Rag, Moist Poetry, Nimrod, Parentheses Journal and Tinderbox among others.

She is a 2023 Best of the Net Nominee and winner of Tinderbox Poetry’s 2022 Majda Gama Editor’s Prize. In 2021, she was a semi-finalist in the The Floating Bridge Chapbook competition and was long-listed for the Palette Poetry Prize and the Frontier Open. She is the founder of Seattle Writers Circle, an online workshop series dedicated to creating supportive community, inclusion and creative exploration for writers of all genres and abilities. Learn more about her writing and other offerings at RiverElizabethHall.com

The psychological harm from health insurance denials to patients and physicians cannot be undone

JL Lycette, MD, is a hematologist/oncologist and writer in rural Oregon. Her medical perspective and narrative medicine essays can be found in NEJM, JAMA, Journal of Clinical Oncology, The ASCO Post, Medscape, and Doximity, among other places.

Her debut novel, a speculative medical thriller, THE ALGORITHM WILL SEE YOU NOW (Black Rose Writing Press), is out now. See more of her writing on her website, https://jenniferlycette.com, and connect with her on Twitter @JL_Lycette