Co-Editors
- Sandra Bertman , PhD
- Dustin Brinker
- Albert Howard Carter, III , PhD
- Mark Clark , PhD
- Cortney Davis , BA, MA
- Carol Donley , PhD, MA
- Jacalyn Duffin , MD PhD
- Steven Field , MD
- Sebastian Galbo
- Rebecca Garden , PhD
- Guy Glass , MD, MFA
- Schuyler Henderson , MD
- Martha Stoddard Holmes , PhD, MA
- Joshua Jiang
- Therese Jones , PhD
- Martin Kohn , PhD
- Gretl Lam, MD
- Barron Lerner , MD, PhD
- Spencer McClelland
- Marilyn McEntyre , PhD
- Tony Miksanek , MD
- Michael Natter , MD
- Lois LaCivita Nixon , PhD, MPH, MLitt, MAT
- David Oshinsky , PhD
- Richard M. Ratzan
- Gabriel Redel-Traub, MD
- Mona Saleh , MD
- Carol Schilling , PhD
- Audrey Shafer , MD
- Maura Spiegel , PhD
- J. Russell Teagarden , DMH,MA
- Shawn Thomas
- Howard Trachtman , MD
- Delese Wear , PhD
- Janice Willms , MD, PhD
- Devon Zander
Annotators
- Felice Aull
- Catherine Belling
- Stacy Bodziak
- Louis Borgenicht
- Kate Brown
- Katherine Burke
- Tod Chambers
- Irene Chen
- Stephanie Brown Clark
- Lucas Cofer
- Jack Coulehan
- Susan Daiss
- Olivia DiLeonardo
- Lisa Dittrich
- Stanley Fefferman
- Katie Grogan
- Nishanth Iyengar
- Meegan Kennedy
- Evan Mahl
- Jan Marta
- Rachel Martel
- Richard Martinez
- Helle Mathiasen
- Lindsay McNair
- Jonathan Metzl
- Pamela Moore
- Sam Perkins
- Suzanne Poirier
- Amanda Schaffer
- Marian Gray Secundy
- Daren Simkin
- Marjorie Sirridge
- Harriet Squier
- Ann Folwell Stanford
- Jerko Steiner
- Nancy Taylor
- James Terry
- Mary Winkler
- John Woodcock
As both a nurse practitioner and writer, I'm drawn to the intersection of science and creativity: how sensitivity to story and metaphor might help us to be better, more alert caregivers, and how caregiving--familiarity with the body and its mysteries--might help us to write with passion and humility. My particular interest in the literature and medicine arena is the writing of nurses, physician and other caregivers. I especially enjoy helping others discover their own creative writing abilities. Their poems and prose reinforce my belief that, in caregiving, all our points of view are relevant. With my colleague, Judy Schaefer, I've co-edited two award winning anthologies, Intensive Care: More Poetry and Prose by Nurses (University of Iowa Press, 2003) and Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses (University of Iowa Press, 1995). My full-length poetry collections include Details of Flesh (Calyx Books, 1997) and Leopold's Maneuvers (University of Nebraska Press, 2004), winner of the 2003 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. My most recent non-fiction book is When the Nurse Becomes a Patient: A Story in Words and Images, an illness narrative published by Kent State University Press (March 2015). Another memoir, The Heart's Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing, was published by Kent State University Press in 2009 and was awarded an American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award and an Independent Publisher's Medal in Non-Fiction. My other publications include chapbooks of poems, Conversion / Return, The Body Flute, and Willy-Nilly Poems for Children. my website is www.cortneydavis.com
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