This is an ONLINE EVENT featuring Mary Pan, Stephanie Cooper, and Michele Bombardier.

Mary Pan is a writer and physician with a background in global health and narrative medicine. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, McSweeney’s, Pinch, and elsewhere. She has been selected for workshops, retreats, and residencies with Tin House, Hedgebrook, Kenyon Review, and Centrum, and is a Harvard Media & Medicine alum. The recipient of a 2019 Artist Trust Grants for Artists’ Projects Literary Award, she was runner-up for AWP’s 2020 Kurt Brown Prize for Creative Nonfiction. She is currently working on a memoir in lyrical essays exploring mental illness, caregiving, and retrospective becoming.

Stephanie Cooper, M.D., believes that stories are the currency of human experience. Before she was a doctor, she was a journalist, using the written word to bring voice and awareness to human interest and environmental stories. She conceptualized and taught “Mind, Body, and Pen: Writing and the Art of Becoming a Physician.” She has facilitated several Narrative Medicine workshops at University of Washington for both residents and faculty members and Stephanie attended the Masters in Narrative Medicine program at Columbia University. She is currently an Emergency Medicine physician with Kaiser Permanente in Seattle, Washington, and a mother of two vibrant boys who love a good story.

Michele Bombardier is the author of What We Do, a Washington Book Award finalist. Before returning to graduate school for her MFA in poetry, Michele worked as a SLP in hospitals and in her own clinic specializing in neurological disorders. Her work has appeared in JAMA, Bellevue Literary Review, Parabola, Crab Creek Review, and many others. She is a Hedgebrook fellow, the founder of Fishplate Poetry, and the inaugural poet laureate of Bainbridge Island.

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