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Editor-in-Chief: Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, DLitt (Hon), is assistant
professor of medicine at New York University, and practices
medicine and teaches at Bellevue Hospital. Her most recent book,
Incidental Findings, was published by Beacon Press. One of the chapters was selected by Susan Orlean for Best American Essays 2005. Another chapter was selected by Oliver Sacks for Best American Science Writing 2003. Ofri's first book, Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue,
is available in paperback from Penguin. A chapter from this book was chosen by Steven Jay Gould for Best American Essays 2002. Ofri's writings
have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Best American Essays, Best American Science Writing, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, The Missouri Review, and on National Public
Radio. Ofri is the recipient of the 2005
McGovern Award,
from the American Medical Writers Association for
"preeminent contributions to medical communication." She is
Associate Chief Editor of The
Bellevue Guide to Outpatient Medicine, which was voted
Best Medical Textbook of 2001, also by AMWA.
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Senior Fiction Editor: Ronna Wineberg, JD, earned a BA from
the University of Michigan and JD from the University of Denver.
Her collection of short stories, Second Language, was
awarded first prize in the New Rivers Press MVP literary competition,
and was published by New Rivers Press in October, 2005.
Her stories have appeared in Berkeley Fiction Review, Colorado
Review, South Dakota Review, Writers Forum and in other
literary journals. Her work has been a finalist in the Moment
Magazine and the New Millennium writing contests.
Wineberg's essays have appeared in DAUGHTERS and River
Oak Review. She has received the John Atherton Scholarship
in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and fellowships
to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Ragdale
Foundation, and she has taught writing at New York University
and elsewhere. She is a 2004 fellow in Fiction from the New
York Foundation for the Arts. Her new website is RonnaWineberg.com |
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Senior Nonfiction Editor: Jerome Lowenstein, MD is professor
of medicine and former Chief of the Nephrology Division at New York
University School of Medicine. He is the author of The
Midnight Meal and Other Essays About Doctors, Patients, and
Medicine (New and Expanded Edition, University of Michigan Press, 2005) which tells stories about relationships between
medical students and teachers, physicians and colleagues, and physicians and patients. He asks whether one can teach compassion, and examines the thesis
that the brain has a "module" to process information
presented in narrative form. He is Co-Director of The
Patient Narrative, a program in which first-year medical students
interview patients and write reflective essays. He is the recipient of the 2005 Davies Award from the American College of Physicians, recognizing his scholarly work in the humanities. Lowenstein is the Publisher of the newly-formed Bellevue Literary Press.
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Fiction Editor: Suzanne McConnell holds a BA in Sociology from The University of Arkansas and an MFA in Fiction Writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, her stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Orchid, The Saint’s Ann’s Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Calyx, Green Mountains Review,The Fiddlehead, Personal Fiction Writing, Poets & Writers, Cape Women, HalfthePlanet.com, Earth's Daughters, A Sense of Place and Discovery Channel Publishing’s Travel Series. She has been granted residencies at Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Ucross Foundation, and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. She teaches writing and literature at Hunter College, and is an editor and writing coach for Greenline Publishing Consultants as well as free-lance. Her novel, Fence of Earth, a finalist for the James Fellowship for Novel in Progress, will soon be available for publication |
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Poetry Editor: Corie Feiner (née Herman) is a poet and performer from New York. Her first collection of poems was Radishes into Roses (Linear Arts Press) and her work has been featured in numerous literary magazines and anthologies including Calyx, Kalliope, The Cortland Review, and Zeek. She performs her work regularly in New York City, the northeast, and Israel and is a cast member of the theatre troupe, Storahtelling. Called "wonderful" by The New York Times, and "captivating," by Backstage Magazine; she has been featured in The Riverdale Press, the Greenwhich Times, and on WNBC for her performances and poetry workshops. A graduate of NYU's Graduate Creative Writing Program, she currently teaches at MAKOR, JCC Manhattan, and The Writer's Voice. You can reach her through her web site: www.coriefeiner.com. |
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Poetry Editor: Frances Richey's first poetry collection, The Burning Point, won the 9th Annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize, released in 2004. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, O--The Oprah Magazine, RIVER STYX, Notre Dame Review, Salmagundi, Gulf Coast, Tiferet, Bellevue Literary Review and has been featured on New York Voices on Channel Thirteen. Her newest collection, The Warrior, will be released in April 2008 by VIking Penguin. Fran was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2005. She teaches yoga, meditation and writing workshops in New York City. www.FrancesRichey.com
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Managing Editor: Stacy Bodziak holds a BA in English Literature and Psychology from New York University, and recently completed an MA in Developmental Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University. Before joining the BLR, she was a Circulation Desk Supervisor at NYU Medical Library for several years, and was a writer and copy editor for NYU’s Washington Square News. |
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Publisher: Martin J. Blaser, MD is Frederick H. King
Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine, and Professor
of Microbiology at New York University School of Medicine. Since
returning to NYU, where he was a student, in 2000, he has developed
several innovative educational programs. Among them, he has
promoted narrative skills of medical housestaff, and writing
skills of the medical students as an integral part of critical
thinking. All students rotating through the Department of Medicine
are required to write patient-based essays dealing with philosophy,
ethics, humanities or scientific reasoning. Dr. Blaser established
the Bellevue Literary Review as a forum for literature dealing
with many of these same issues. Dr. Blaser divides his time
between teaching, patient care, and research. His research focus,
for more than 25 years, has been the role of bacteria in human
diseases, as well as studies of their basic biology and evolution.
He has authored more than 400 original papers, and is currently president of the Infectious Disease Society of America. |
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Editors Emeriti Donna Baier Stein Founding Poetry Editor
Roxanna Font Founding Poetry Editor
Doris H. Milman, M.D Founding Copy Editor |
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Editorial Board |
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Felice Aull
Carol Berman
Rafael Campo
Rita Charon
Jack Coulehan
Tony Dajer
Stuart Dickerman
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Kate Falvey
Will Grossman
Perri Klass
Itzhak Kronzon
George Lipkin
Lois Lowenstein
Michael Pillinger Claudia S. Plottel
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Norman Posner
Richard Selzer
Marc Siegel
Abraham Verghese
Gerald Weissmann
David Zimmerman
Abigail Zuger
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Graphic Designer: Troi Santos
Web Designer: Benjamin Akman
Department Administrator: Lucy Cribben
Office Associate: Elsa Nunez
Interns: Kathryn Coffman, Marylu Ekiert, Meghan Holeman
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In Memoriam: Doris Milman, MD
We were saddened to learn in November of the death of Doris Milman, copy editor of the BLR. After a distinguished career in pediatrics, Doris donated her time to copyedit for the BLR. Nothing passed by her eagle eyes, and she was a stickler for commas. Once, I gingerly approached her about dropping a few commas, noting that the New Yorker tended to a more "open" punctuation. Within 30 minutes she shot back an email: "I've read every issue of the New Yorker since 1943 and I can tell you the exact date that their grammatical standards crumbled. I can do the same for the New York Times." |
The commas remain in the BLR.
We'll miss you, Doris.
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