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Renée K. Nicholson is the author of multiple poetry collections, including Feverdream (Redhawk Publishing 2026), Postscripts (Wild Ink Publishing, 2024), and Roundabout Directions to Lincoln Center (Urban Farmhouse Press, 2014), as well as the memoir-in-essays Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness (West Virginia University Press, 2021), a finalist for the Housatonic Prize in Nonfiction, and co-edited the award winning anthology Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives of Illness, Disability, and Medicine (University of Nebraska Press, 2019). She is a nationally recognized voice in health humanities and narrative medicine, a freelance writer and humanities consultant, and faculty emerita at West Virginia University, where she served a ...more

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	Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness 4.07 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability, and Medicine by Dinty W. Moore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Erin Murphy (Editor), Renée K. Nicholson (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roundabout Directions to Lincoln Center 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Keeping Track: Fiction of Lists by Yelizaveta P. Renfro (editor), Steve Edwards, Kathie Giorgio (Goodreads Author) 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Feverdream: Poems it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What We Do in the Hollows it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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