Jack Coulehan teaches and practices medicine at Stony Brook University. His poems and stories appear frequently in literary magazines and medical journals and have been widely anthologized. He has published four collections of poetry, most recently Medical Stone. His other books include Chekhov’s Doctors and The Medical Interviews: Mastering Skills for Clinical Practice. Together, Angela Belli and Coulehan edited Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians (Iowa, 1998).

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