I am co-editor of narrative nonfiction at Tendon, a literary magazine publishing creative and critical work across the medical humanities. Housed within Johns Hopkins’s Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, it has been going since 2019. Our section looks for memoir, reporting, essays, vignettes, and more. Find upcoming calls for submissions on our Submittable portal: https://tendonmag.submittable.com/submit.

I am founder and curator of this collection of zines. Inspired by activists’ and advocates’ passionate efforts to center patient perspectives in journalistic work, this collection, which will be reside in special collections at the Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins University and online, aims to amplify and preserve the experiences of chronically ill and disabled people within an academic context. The zine library’s website will launch in 2025. In the meantime, please email me about materials you would like to submit, and I will send a purchase agreement for your review. Creators will have approval over all metadata used to describe their work in the university’s library catalog.

I lead this in-progress research—my Hugh Hawkins fellowship project for 2024-2025—tracing the origin of three human remains on view at Johns Hopkins University. With assistance from several librarians and archivists (especially Allison Seyler), this work follows the journeys of human remains through the school from the 1890s to the present. This research will culminate in a publicly accessible digital humanities project.