excerpt from Drawing Blood

I spent a lot of time thinking about blood during my training years—hoping I could get enough of it, wondering which vein would yield the best supply of it, wishing the patients had more of it, calling the blood bank for a bag of it. I cushioned samples of it in my sweaty palm, palpated arteries for the pulse of it, auscultated hearts for the beat of it.

Honorable Mention

Felice Buckvar Prize for Nonfiction

2018

  • Honorable Mention for Fel Felice Buckvar Prize for Nonfiction

  • “Drawing Blood.” Bellevue Literary Review, vol. 18, no. 1. (Honorable Mention for Fel Felice Buckvar Prize for Nonfiction), 2018, pp. 53-57.