ABOUT

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Liz, a white woman wearing a leather jacket, stands against a wall of red metal bars. She is smirking and looking up toward the sky.
Liz Bowen is a scholar, poet, and editor living in Syracuse, NY. She is an assistant professor in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University, as well as a Presidential Scholar at The Hastings Center. Her work explores the intersections of disability, the health humanities, bioethics, and medical education. She is the author of the poetry collections Sugarblood (Metatron Press, 2017) and Compassion Fountain (Trembling Pillow Press, 2022), as well as two chapbooks. She earned her Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia University, with a dissertation that explored disability and animality as intertwined sites of literary experimentation in 20th and 21st century American literature. Liz is the Disability section editor at Public Books and senior poetry editor at Peach Mag. Her writing can be found in The Believer, Scientific American, The New Inquiry, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Post45, Lit Hub, and elsewhere.