I’m very pleased to announce that my short story Eight to Twelve Hours has received an honorable mention in Glimmer Train’s July/August Very Short Fiction Award contest.

Glimmer Train is one of the most respected short-story journals in print, and I am grateful to the editors for reading my work and for all the work they do.

From their email:

…we really enjoyed “Eight to Twelve Hours”!  Although it did not quite make the top-25 list, it did make it a long way through the judging process, earning you Honorable Mention, which you should note on your cover letter as you send this story back out into the world.

The American Journal of Nursing wrote a blog post about my recent essay, “The Traumatized Patient.” You can read it here on the journal’s website, “Off the Charts.”

My essay, “The Traumatized Patient,” is out this month in the American Journal of Nursing. “The Traumatized Patient” is an essay about those patients whose trauma histories have lead to or exacerbated somatic complaints, often eclipsing that which we can easily treat with traditional western medicine. Originally drafted when I was a student nurse practitioner on one of my earliest rotations, I finished this essay a little over a year into my practice for the American Journal of Nursing‘s Reflections column.

The American Journal of Nursing is the oldest and most honored broad-based nursing journal in the world. It is considered the profession’s premier journal, and it is an honor to have my writing included in it.