Melissa Fournier, LMSW
Melissa is a clinical social worker specializing in grief and bereavement therapy in Traverse City, MI. She facilitates Writing Through Loss, an ongoing writing workshop aimed at helping individuals shape their grief narrative, and Narrative Medicine workshops for healthcare professionals. Melissa has worked in adult, pediatric, and perinatal hospice, mental health, and has been a featured speaker on end-of-life, bereavement, and ethics. She holds a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Michigan, a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Wayne State University, and a Certificate of Professional Achievement in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University. Her writing has appeared in Dunes Review, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine, and Medical Literary Messenger. She is co-editor of AFTER: Stories about Loss and What Comes Next (Barnwood Books, 2019) and author of Abruptio (The Poetry Box, 2019).
Gina Pribaz, MFA, MA
Gina is a clinical associate in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, where she teaches creative writing and health humanities. She has developed humanities, arts, and ethics programming at a nonprofit healthcare system in Peoria, IL. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Northwestern University, a Master of Arts in Literature from the University of Iowa, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame. Her essays have appeared in Body and Soul: Narrative of Healing from Ars Medica, Tampa Review, Brain,Child Magazine, and elsewhere. She volunteers with the National Organization for Arts in Health.
Contributors
Jafar Al-Mondhiry
Shannon Arntfield
Daniel Becker
Christopher Blake
Joseph Bocchicchio
Lila Flavin
Rachel Fleishman
Serena J. Fox
William A. French
Jennifer Hu
Simone Kantola
Pam Lenkov
Mary C. Lindberg
Teegan Mannion
Veneta Masson
Pamela A. Mitchell
Richard Morand
Kacper Niburski
Paivi E. Pittman
Aneesh Rajmaira
Sheri Reda
Lara Ronan
Hui-wen Alina Sato
Thom Schwarz
Elena Schwolsky
Katherine DiBella Seluja
Howard F. Stein
Daniel J. Waters
Kelley White
Rondalyn Varney Whitney
Anna-leila Williams
Maria Wolfe
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