THE CALENDULA REVIEW
A Journal of Narrative Medicine
at CNU College of Health Sciences
The Editorial Team
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Founding Editor-in-Chief: Liz Baxmeyer
Liz Baxmeyer is a writer, educator, musician, sound artist, and visual artist. She holds a master’s degree in music composition with an emphasis in electroacoustic music from Bangor University, UK, and an MFA in creative writing with a focus in Writing and Contemporary Media from Antioch University, Santa Barbara; she is currently undertaking a PhD in Creative Research at Transart Institute/LJMU. Liz is trained in Narrative Medicine facilitation (NWNMC) and is a certified Amherst Writers & Artists Affiliate Workshop Facilitator. She has taught at the college level since 2009 and has been a lecturer in the Humanities department at CHS since 2017 where she teaches writing, music, health professions, and narrative medicine classes. She has presented at numerous conferences on the subjects of environmental writing, authentic assignments, sound and grief, and audio pedagogy. Her poetry, fiction, art, and nonfiction have been published in an array of literary magazines and journals including Beyond Words Literary Magazine, The Examined Life Journal, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Syncopation Literary, Querencia Press, Common Thread, Luna Station Quarterly, NCTE, and more. Her hybrid chapbook, Root & Bone is available through Finishing Line Press.
Founding Managing Editor: Fran Wise, MA, Ph.D.
Fran Wise has been teaching college composition and critical thinking courses for over 15 years in addition to the 20 years she worked in K – 12 education as a teacher, curriculum designer, and principal. Fran holds an MA in Education Administration and a PhD in Education. Fran currently serves as the Director of Student Affairs in the College of Health Sciences at California Northstate University. She also serves as Faculty Advisor to the Pre-Medical Post Baccalaureate students pursuing admissions to graduate schools in the health professions. Fran is the editor of Pearls From the Seat of Wisdom: An Invitation to Virtue and is an advocate for holistic health for body, mind, and soul.
Issue Editors
Co-Editor, Issue 5: Dormancy: Katherine Whitcome, Ph.D.
Katherine Whitcome is an anthropologist who as a community college student edited the Napa College Poetry Anthology mentored by her first professor poet Dave Evans. While pursuing her PhD in biological anthropology she envied cultural classmates’ intimate writings on relationships with people whose lived experiences were data, and so wrote of ancient bones, missing identities, and apes within. After decades framed by science publishing, she recently reopened a long closed briefcase and now collaborates in writing and teaching narrative medicine.
Past Editors
Founding Co-Managing Editor, 2022-2025: Miranda R. Carter
Miranda R. Carter is a writer and professor in her seventh year of teaching. She holds degrees from University of Idaho and Gonzaga University. Idahoan by birth and Californian at heart, she newly resides in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she teaches journalism at Franklin College. Her debut essay collection, The World and My Body in It, is available through Barnes and Noble. Her writing has been published in Idaho Magazine, River Teeth Journal, Calla Press, Eunoia Review, and more.