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By using this website, you agree to our use of cookies. We use cookies to provide you with a great experience and to help our website run effectively. Your Custom Text Here © An Ode to Undrowning. Jenna Grauman. Spring-Summer 2025 Intima Jenna Grauman is a collage artist and graduate student at Antioch University studying the intersections of narrative medicine and social justice in healthcare and community building. In her short story, “A (Con)versation,” preventive medicine physician Janet Greenhut unravels grief in a scene about a chat between two strangers set among cherry blossom trees. The Japanese concept of hanami (gazing at cherry blossoms) comes up, to which the narrator comments, “Imagine celebrating the impermanence of life.” Much of our new issue confronts this sentiment—in work that expresses the impermanence of health and what it means to be human. Fellow fiction contributor Nivedita Gunturi also addresses impermanence in the natural world in her meditative prose piec

Intima Menu Welcome to the 2026 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine “Stepping into the Light” is a painting in a powerful triptych titled “Hidden Lore” by Annie Chen. Inspired by the themes of trust, purpose and collaboration that “define a hospital’s inhabitants,” the artist, who is a fourth-year medical student at Baylor, “used light and color to reframe the hospital as a place of sacred duty.” © Hidden Lore: Stepping Into the Light Annie Chen. Acrylic on canvas We are excited to share our new issue with its many relevant themes that we as readers and clinicians grapple with today: how w

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