Judith Hannan

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Telling Your Story to Live With and Beyond Illness

Beschreibung

A hands-on, hearts-on guide to writing about illness. Using intimate prompts and personal stories, Judith Hannan takes the reader and emerging-writer on a journey through what it means to reckon with illness. Having gone through her daughter's cancer diagnosis and treatments, Hannan is an experienced, thoughtful, and caring guide for anyone wanting to find a way through the labyrinth of the illness experience.

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 0.35MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Judith Hannan is the author of Motherhood Exaggerated (CavanKerry Press, 2012), her memoir of discovery and transformation during her daughter's cancer treatment and her transition into survival. Her essays have appeared in such publications as Woman's Day, Opera News, The Huffington Post, The Healing Muse, ZYZZYVA, Twins Magazine, and The Martha's Vineyard Gazette. She teaches writing about personal experience to homeless mothers and at-risk adolescents as well as to medical students, and is a judge of the annual essay contest sponsored by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation for Humanism-in-Medicine. She served as Director of Development of the 92nd Street Y and then for the Children's Museum of Manhattan. She now serves on the board of the Museum, Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects, as well as on three boards affiliated with the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York-the Adolescent Health Center (where she now serves as President of the Advisory Board), the Children's Center Foundation, and Global Health. She lives in New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rare Bird Books
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781941729052
• Artikelnr.: 44007934