Postscripts by Renee K. Nicholson

Postscripts makes many travels, from the landscapes and cultures of foreign travels, to the long journey through grief. Thrown also into relief is home-for this poet, West Virginia, in the heart of Appalachia-and all the ways it balances the hard-hewn beauty and hardscrabble realities. Like a travel diary or a love letter home, these poems speak to place in all its incarnations: physical, artistic, spiritual, familial, and imagined.

Author Bio:

Renée K. Nicholson is the author of Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness, co-editor of the award-winning anthology Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives of Illness, Disability, and Medicine, and the poetry collection Roundabout Directions to Lincoln Center. She directed the Humanities Center at West Virginia University until 2024, and is a creative partner in Healthcare Is Human, a nonprofit dedicated to authentic storytelling in healthcare. Renée is a contributing writer for Synapsis: a Journal of Health Humanities, and the author of many creative pieces and scholarly articles. Renée was a past Emerging Writer-in-Residence at Penn State-Altoona, and the recipient of the 2018 Susan S. Landis Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts from the West Virginia Division of Arts, Culture, and History.