View from the Bed/View from the Bedside

by Heather Tosteson, Phyllis A. Langton (Editor), Charles Brockett (Editor)

Who is the doctor or nurse who for better, or worse, you can't forget? The patient who changed your life? Thirty-eight contemporary writers explore with memoir, story, and poetry the different ways we talk about, to -- and through -- each other at the doctor's office, hospital, or sickbed. This book should appeal to anyone familiar with the view from the bed or the view from the bedside -- and with our need individually and as a society for a comprehensive view that compassionately holds them both.

296 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 5, 2016

About the author

HEATHER TOSTESON, a fiction writer, poet and visual artist, is the author most recently of the poetry collection, Source Notes: Seventh Decade. She is also the author of the novels The Philosophical Transactions of Maria van Leeuwenhoek, Antoni's Dochter (1668-1696), which explores questions of sexual generation. She is also the author of the novel Visible Signs, and two collections of short stories, Germs of Truth and Hearts as Big as Fists & Other Stories. Her other two books of poetry are The Sanctity of the Moment: Poems from Four Decades, and Breathing in Portuguese, Living in English.

She is also the author and co-author of two non-fiction Wising Up Listening projects, most recently Sharing the Burden of Repair: Reentry After Mass Incarceration which looks at reentry from multiple perspectives. God Speaks My Language, Can You? explores spiritual journeys across many faith traditions.

She has co-edited and illustrated seventeen Wising Up anthologies, including most recently Flip Sides, Goodness, and Re-Creating Our Common Chord.

She has received a Nation/Discovery prize for her poetry and fellowships for poetry, fiction, and photography from MacDowell, Yaddo, VCCA and Hambidge. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (UNC-Greensboro) and Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing (Ohio University). She has worked extensively in the public health and the health sciences as a writer, editor, and researcher. She is the founder, with Charles Brockett, of Wising Up Press and the Wising Up Press Writers Collective.