| Contributors' Notes: Issue Zero features invited submissions by writer, photographer, and artist members of the healthcare community of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and its affiliates. |
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| Daniel Becker | Daniel M. Becker, MD, MPH, MFA is
Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences and also the
Director of the UVA Center for Humanism in Medicine. Daniel Becker teaches internal medicine and palliative care medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He does home visits for hospice patients, and "Home Visit," the first poem he published, is a collage of home visit impressions. |
| Heather Burns | Heather Burns holds an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Virginia, and an M.A. in Bioethics also from UVA. She is currently a Ph.D student at the Curry School of Education focusing on the use of Narrative in Medical Education. Her poems have appeared in Nimrod,
Iris: A Journal About Women, Alligator Juniper, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. |
| R. Ariel Gomez | R. Ariel Gomez is Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies at the University of Virginia. He is a pediatrician and a scientist and an NIH-recognized expert in Pediatric Nephrology. Born in Argentina, he holds an M.D. from the University of Buenos Aires and has been at UVA since 1984. "The Kitemaker" is his first fiction publication. |
| Mary Motley Kalergis | Mary Motley Kalergis's photography has been exhibited widely in museums and galleries including the Smithsonian Institution, the San Antonio Museum of Art, and the Chrysler Museum of Art. Her previous books include Giving Birth (1983), Mother: A Collective Portrait (1987), Home of the Brave (1990), and With This Ring: A Portrait of Marriage (1997).
Ms. Kalergis's photographs have appeared in newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, People, Time, Glamour, and The Guardian (London). She has served on the faculty of the International Center of Photography in New York. She lives with her family in Charlottesville, Virginia. Ms. Kalergis is also the author / photographer of Seen and Heard: Teenagers Talk About Their Lives (1998). |
| David B. Morris | David B. Morris is a University Professor at the University of Virginia. He has written two prize-winning books on British
literature: The Religious Sublime (1972) and Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense (1984). The Culture of Pain (1991) won a PEN prize.
More recent books are Earth Warrior (1995) and Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age (1998). He is currently working on the third volume in what will constitute an illness/culture trilogy. |