Jennifer Stella

Jennifer Stella is a contributor to Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, with three pieces in the Spring 2014 issue. Her work includes the poem 'Letter to a 93-year-old Cadaver,' which addresses dissection and the intimacy and distance of the process. Her non-fiction piece 'Open Heart, Open Book' describes a doctor's experience scrubbing in on cardiothoracic surgery. Her Field Notes piece 'Love and Medicine' considers a patient's past life before illness.