Laurie Edwards holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Emerson College. She teaches a writing course designed for students of the health professional at Northeastern University. Her essays and articles have been published in the Boston Globe Magazine, ChronicBabe.com, and Body1.com, and on her blog, achronicdose.com. She currently is developing a creative writing program for chronically ill children at Children's Hospital Boston, for which she was recently awarded a Teachers as Writers Fellowship from the prestigious Calderwood Writing Initiative at the Boston Athenaeum. This is her first book.
