When they ask me…how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing.”

— William Carlos Williams —

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My essay, “Begin Cutting: Education by Knife” (Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2016), was honored with selection in the Best American Science and Nature Writing Anthology 2016 along side work by Oliver Sacks, Kathryn Schulz, Sarah Maslin Nir, Charles C. Mann, Elizabeth Kolbert, Gretel Ehrlich, and others.

My essay, "Notes on the Ontology of Suffering," forthcoming in The American Scholar.