Donna Bulseco '75

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Donna Bulseco '75, a longtime journalist based in New York City and editor-in-chief of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, has put together an anthology, "Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine," which will be published on March 24 by New York City publisher The Experiment. She earned her bachelor's degree in English.

"As an undergraduate at UCLA, I studied poetry and great literature with professors like Douglas Fiero, Stephen Yenser, Calvin Bedient, Charles Gullans and Kenneth Lincoln," Bulseco said. "Their original way of reading, interpreting and writing prepared me for my current role at Intima, an online literary journal, which publishes poems, short stories and essays written by those involved with clinical care."

With work culled from the archives of Intima, "Where It Hurts" is described as "a moving look at the challenges and triumphs of caregiving, told through candid literary accounts by 63 doctors, nurses and other healers.

"'Where It Hurts' invites us to peer into the space between health and illness, life and death, through the voices of the people who work on medicine’s frontlines. In raw and revealing essays, stories and poems, they share what it’s like to deal with difficult patients, life-changing diagnoses, private doubts, painful failures and the victories that keep them going.

"By turns conversational, spare, urgent, poetic, plain-spoken, heart-rending and heart-mending, each piece offers a glimpse into the extraordinary daily realities of those charged with taking care of us at our most vulnerable."

Advance reviews by bestselling authors Wally Lamb, Thomas McGuane and Ann Hood as well as leading voices in the clinical realm (Suzanne Koven, Wes Ely, Danielle Ofri, Jacob Appel and Deepu Gowda) have underscored its importance and meaning to those involved in health and healing. "A healing balm for anyone impacted by their own or someone else's illness — which is to say, anyone who is human," said Elizabeth Lahti, M.D.

Bulseco has graduate degrees in English literature from Brown University and narrative medicine from Columbia University. She is an editor and contributor to publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Self, InStyle, the Purist and others.