A woman finds the gift of stories to ground us and give shape to our suffering — by teaching creative writing to in-patient adolescents on the psychiatry floor of Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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Lauren Small
Lauren Small teaches English and creative writing at the University of Maryland University College. Her work has appeared in Partisan Review, Fiction, StoryQuarterly, and the Johns Hopkins Magazine, among others. She is the author of Choke Creek and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Together with Dr. Benjamin Oldfield, she runs AfterWards, a program in Narrative Medicine in the Charlotte Bloomberg Chidlren’s Center at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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