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Renée K. Nicholson

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Renée K. Nicholson is the author of multiple poetry collections, including Feverdream (Redhawk Publishing 2026), Postscripts (Wild Ink Publishing, 2024), and Roundabout Directions to Lincoln Center (Urban Farmhouse Press, 2014), as well as the memoir-in-essays Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness (West Virginia University Press, 2021), a finalist for the Housatonic Prize in Nonfiction, and co-edited the award winning anthology Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives of Illness, Disability, and Medicine (University of Nebraska Press, 2019). She is a nationally recognized voice in health humanities and narrative medicine, a freelance writer and humanities consultant, and faculty emerita at West Virginia University, where she served a ...more

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Renée K. Nicholson I don't often feel blocked as a writer; my struggle is with time. Balancing my day job and my writing can feel fraught. I can't always pivot to write …moreI don't often feel blocked as a writer; my struggle is with time. Balancing my day job and my writing can feel fraught. I can't always pivot to write in the hours between meetings. Or, sometimes I just feel wiped out. So having sustained writing time is always my struggle to contend with. However, I often plan writing-only trips by myself or with other writers. The literary journal Barrelhouse has a writer camp where you go with other writers and write for a long weekend, with a few community activities in the evening and meals together, but nice, prolonged time to write. I've been a couple of times and hope to go again. (less)

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Renée K. Nicholson When the writing is clicking, when I feel that I putting down words in an artful way that say something close to what I hoped in my heart and in my im…moreWhen the writing is clicking, when I feel that I putting down words in an artful way that say something close to what I hoped in my heart and in my imagination, that's the best part of being a writer. (less)

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	Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness 4.04 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability, and Medicine by Dinty W. Moore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Erin Murphy (Editor), Renée K. Nicholson (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roundabout Directions to Lincoln Center 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Keeping Track: Fiction of Lists by Yelizaveta P. Renfro (editor), Steve Edwards, Kathie Giorgio (Goodreads Author) 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What We Do in the Hollows it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Feverdream: Poems it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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