Brooke Kowalke is an Assistant Professor who has been teaching at Creighton since the Fall of 2004. Her specializations include medical memoir, narratives of health and illness, medical humanities, and early modern transatlantic literature. She is currently working on a memoir—Grace Notes: Lessons on Personhood, Parenthood, and Love—about how her daughter Grace, who lived 5 months with Trisomy-18, changed everything. Pieces of that memoir appear on the Literary Mama Blog, in Barren Magazine, and under the gum tree. She also works on the scholarship of medical education and the role of literature within a medical school curriculum. She teaches courses including “Contemporary Composition: Voices for Health” and “The Body in Early English Literature” in the College of Arts and Sciences. In the School of Medicine, she teaches courses including “Narratives of Neurodiversity” and “Bearing Witness: Memoirs of Dying, Death, and Grief.”