{"id":5999,"date":"2026-10-05T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/?p=5999"},"modified":"2026-09-30T16:39:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:39:46","slug":"special-author-reading-with-dr-amy-haddad-set-for-oct-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/2026\/10\/05\/special-author-reading-with-dr-amy-haddad-set-for-oct-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Special author reading with Dr. Amy Haddad set for Oct. 21"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A special author reading\u202fpresented\u202fby McGoogan Library\u202f<\/strong>\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing What We Witness as Clinicians and\u202fPatients<\/strong>\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date:<\/strong>\u202fOctober 21, 2026\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time:<\/strong>\u202f12 to 1 p.m.\u202f\u202f\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location:<\/strong>\u202fMSC 2018\u202for\u202fvia Zoom<\/a>\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presented by<\/strong>: Dr. Amy Haddad,\u202fProfessor Emerita in the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions at Creighton University\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writers who are also health care professionals and patients often draw from\u00a0personal and clinical experiences.\u00a0Turning observation and emotion into authentic writing can be complicated.\u00a0Dr.\u202fHaddad,\u202fwho is a nurse, patient and writer, will consider the ways her creative work gives voice to these roles as well as how\u00a0health\u00a0experiences\u00a0shape content,\u00a0insights\u00a0and setting. Writing can be a way to work through\u00a0complicated feelings\u00a0brought on by\u00a0traumatic events and diagnoses.\u202fShe\u202fwill read\u00a0her poems\u00a0and\u00a0examine\u00a0how an observation or experience makes it to the page\u00a0in the form of verse. Participants will have an opportunity to\u202freflect on and\u202fwrite\u202fsome\u202fpoetry.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter the drawing<\/a>\u202fto\u202freceive a\u202fsigned\u202fcopy of The\u202fMost Potent Weapon<\/em>. Copies will also be\u202favailable\u202ffor\u202fpurchase\u202fand signing by Dr. Haddad\u202fat the\u202fin-person\u202fevent.\u202fCost is $10.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To attend the lecture via Zoom,\u202fplease register here<\/a>.\u202f 
Attend in person: MSC 2018\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Amy Haddad Biography<\/strong>\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amy Haddad, PhD, MSN, MFA, FAAN, has educated nurses and pharmacists at Creighton University since 1988 where she also held the Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Endowed Chair in the Health Sciences. In addition, Amy served as Director of the Center for Health Policy and Ethics at Creighton from 2005-2018 and now holds the rank of Professor Emerita. She was selected in 2001 to be part of the Pew National Fellowship Program for Carnegie Scholars, studying the impact of patient simulations on health professional learning. She has also been a pioneer in the use of poetry, creative\u202fprose\u202fand narrative writing as approaches to teaching healthcare ethics.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amy is the 2019 recipient of the Annals of Internal Medicine poetry prize for \u201cFamilies Like This\u201d for the best poem published in the journal. She won\u202fthird place\u202ffor the 2019 Kalanithi Writing Awards from Stanford University for her poem \u201cDark Rides.\u201d Her chapbook, The Geography of Kitchens<\/em>, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2021. Her first poetry collection, An Otherwise Healthy Woman<\/em>, was published by Backwaters Press, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, in early 2022. An Otherwise Healthy Woman<\/em> was awarded twice in the 2022 AJN Book of the Year Awards: first place in the Creative Works Category and second place in the Professional Issues Category. In 2025, her second chapbook, The Most Potent Weapon<\/em>, was published by Bottlecap Press.\u202f <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A special author reading\u202fpresented\u202fby McGoogan Library\u202f\u202f  Writing What We Witness as Clinicians and\u202fPatients\u202f  Date:\u202fOctober 21, 2026\u202f  Time:\u202f12 to 1 p.m.\u202f\u202f\u202f  Location:\u202fMSC 2018\u202for\u202fvia Zoom\u202f\u202f\u00a0 Presented by: Dr. Amy Haddad,\u202fProfessor Emerita in the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions at Creighton University\u202f  Writers who are also health care professionals and patients often draw from\u00a0personal and clinical experiences.\u00a0Turning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7,57,273,58,18],"class_list":["post-5999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library","tag-events","tag-faculty","tag-poetry","tag-staff","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5999"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6005,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5999\/revisions\/6005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}