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  • Director, Initiative in Narrative, Medicine & Writing; Ctr. for Health Ethics, Arts & Humanities, Medical Ethics, University of Utah Health Sciences
  • Writer-in-Residence, Huntsman Cancer Institute
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Education

  • Ph.D. , Communication with Emphasis in Rhetoric and Writing Studies, University of Utah. Project: Physicians' Personal Narratives about Dying: A New Genre of Medical Discourse
  • MFA in Creative Writing, Department of English, University of Arizona Tucson, AZ. Project: The Good Wife: A Collection of Short Stories
  • B.A , Philosophy, Whitman College Walla Walla, WA. Project: Not Twilight but Chiaroscuro: Merleau-Ponty's Theory of the Body-Subject

Select Publications

Susan J. Sample (2023).  Trapped in the Bone-House:  Poems.  Main Street Rag Publishing, forthcoming.
 
  • Susan J. Sample (2022). Nadie Te Quita Lo Bailado (translated: "No One Can Take Away What You Dance"), Journal of Adolescent Health. 
  • Susan J. Sample (2022).  When the Screen Retracts.  American Journal of Nursing.
  • Susan J. Sample (2022).  Bone Headdress.  Hektoen International Journal of Medical Humanities. 
  • Susan J. Sample (2021). Voices of Teenage Transplant Survivors: Miracle-Like. (pp. 127). Emerald Publishing. Published, 03/2021.  
  • Susan J. Sample (2021). Vacant Won't Leave Me. Journal of Clinical Oncology. Published, 03/2021. 
  • Susan J. Sample (2020). Remains. Journal of the American Medical Association. Published, 08/2020. 
  • Susan Sample (2019). Some Unsayable Blue. (pp. 34). Finishing Line Press. Published, 07/2019. 
  • Susan J. Sample & A. Peterkin and P. Brett-MacLean, Editors (2016). The Scavenger Hunt: Writing about Medicine's Unmapped Territory. (pp. 290-292). Kent State University Press. Published, 03/2016. 
  • "Medicine and Society: "Vulnerability in Physicians' Narratives." Virtual Mentor (American Medical Association), 13.7. Published, 07/2011. 
  • Terrible Grace: Poems. (2011). Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press. Published, 11/2011. 
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