I am a fiction writer, community medicine physician, and medical writer and editor. I served in the Peace Corps in Guatemala in the Vietnam War era, finished a BA in art history in 1970, helped start community clinics in California, then went on to public health and medical training in Hawaii. I have worked in the gyppo logging communities of Montana, in American Samoa, among the Oglala Sioux of North Dakota, for the Colorado Black Lung Program, and, back in California again, in clinics for Spanish-speaking farmworkers. After the Army transferred my husband to the DC area in 1993, I spent eleven years at the NIH before joining the research group at Maryland Shock Trauma. I finished the Hopkins MA in Fiction Writing in 2010 and started the MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Washington, Seattle, in September, 2014. Since 2012, I have served as a fiction editor at The Baltimore Review.