Susan J. Sample is Assistant Professor in the Program in Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Utah School of Medicine, USA, and Writer-in-Residence at Utah’s Huntsman Cancer Institute. She is also an associate instructor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing Studies, College of Humanities. The author of two chapbooks, Terrible Grace and Some Unsayable Blue, she has published poetry in journals ranging from Tupelo Quarterly to JAMA.