An Anthology of Poetry & Creative Non-Fiction from Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University (Portland, Ore.)
We Become a New Story: Writing from Women, Men & Young Adults Healing from Cancer (Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Ore.)
Paperback | 202 pages | January 2023
CO-EDITOR
DESIGNER/TYPESETTER
PRODUCTION CONSULTANT
“I collaborated on this anthology with co-editor Dawn Thompson and Knight Institute Patient & Family Services Director Susan Hedlund. Dawn and I ordered and edited the writing of 48 OHSU writing circle participants; I designed the cover/interior and facilitated print production/distribution; Rick M. Cook provided copy editing; Deborah Brod provided illustrations; and the cover features a photograph Outbreath of Beauty, a quilt made by Marti Price Morton. Attending the book release celebration to meet many of the inspiring contributing writers and organizing a community reading to enjoy their voices in real-time were heart-full highlights of early 2023!”
FROM THE BACK COVER
For over 10 years, Patient & Family Services at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute has been offering free, on-going weekly writing groups for women, men, and young adults. Director of this program, Susan Hedlund, says, "It is our hope that by offering supportive services that attempt to ease the fears and burdens of the cancer experience, that we are helping to heal the 'whole person.'“
“I did not anticipate how meaningful the group would become or how central to my healing. Our cancer stories are shared without drama or expectation—woven into our life anecdotes—therefore integrated into our very beings, healing our very selves, healing our very souls.”
The 48 writers in this collection are representatives of a much larger group of individuals healing from cancer who have spent time in these writing circles. We give our thanks to them for sharing a glimpse into what happens when pen meets page in the supportive company of other cancer survivors. Their words will inform you, inspire you, and raise your awareness of how the opportunity to express our stories connects each of us to our unique voice and to our shared humanity.
“The writing circle has been the single best way for me to process the emotional side of living with cancer. Something profound and sacred happens when this group comes together.”
“ Finding my voice again has been like returning home and setting off on a great journey all at once.”
AN ANTHOLOGY OF WRITING FROM
Stephanie Balik - Brianna Barrett - Mary Ellen Boles - Deborah Brod - Sandra Clark - Trish Coffey - Rick M. Cook - Marty Crouch - Reina Sofia de la Luz - Kelly Everett - Lois Flores - Bonnie Folick - Sally Foster Rudolph - Susan Gladstone - Hillary H. - Caralynn Hampson - Hesykhia - Sean Hoover - Robbin Isaacson DeWeese - Stella Jeng Guillory - Bija Gutoff - Susan Johnson - Sona Joiner - Judith Kleinstein - Hannah Kimberly - Brenda Marks - Ginny McCarthy - Francie Meyers - Deborah Colette Murphy - Amy Moore Paterson - Sabrina Norris McDonald - Linda Omar - Juliana Person - Kate Redmond - Tyler Roulette - Ruth Selid - Kelly Selis - Alpen Sheth - Elizabeth Shippen Ames - Denise Sirchie - Louise Smith - Cynthia Speckman - Margie Ann Stanko - Lena Traenkenschuh - Kelly Ann Walsh - Robin Welsh - Deb Wesloh - Elena Wiesenthal
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