Sandra Hager Eliason is a retired Family Physician who has turned to writing full time. In 2016, she won the Minnesota Medicine Magazine writing contest. Her story, “Rough Ride,” originally published in West Trade Review, was in Best American Essays 2023, chosen by Vivian Gornick. She was also a finalist for the Plenitudes Prize 2023. Her essays have appeared in Bluestem, The Linden Review, and Brevity Blog and been anthologized in True Stories About Love Vol. 2, Pure Slush vol. 23, and others. She is a book reviewer for Hippocampus Magazine. Eliason is querying her completed memoir, Heal Me: Becoming a Doctor for all the Wrong Reasons (And Finding Myself Anyway). Look for her new newsletter, Medical Stories, coming soon from a being-redesigned website, dreliasonwriter.com.
Dr. Eliason lives with her husband in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she has a garden in the summer and a cat to warm her lap in the winter.
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