Emily Ferrara     

            Emily Ferrara above the Robert Frost path in Vermont.

        Essay on Mindful Living Guide, September 2007.

                                                                               Copyright 2007

Poetry Publications

The Alchemy of Grief (Alchimia del Dolore), (full-length poetry collection, English & Italian), Bordighera Press, NY, publication: November 2007 (2006 Bordighera Poetry Prize winner)

Featured Poet, VIA (Voices in Italian Americana), (2007)

“The Difference”, Lumina, April 2007

“The Winter After”, The Worcester Review, XXVII, December 2006.

“Bad News in the ER”, Family Medicine, 2005

“The Highest Places”, Rough Places Plain: Poems of the Mountains, Salt Marsh Pottery Press, 2005.

“Poem for Jack Spicer, Deadbeat Poet”, Full Circle, 2003.

“Frogs”, Lifeboat: A Journal of Memoir, 2003

“Third Tail” Lynx Eye, Winter 1999, VI (1) 51.

Charlton Poets & Friends II, 18 poems appeared in anthology, 1991

Charlton Poets & Friends, 8 poems included in anthology, 1990

Publications on Creative Writing

Ferrara E.  The Saving Grace of Vulnerability: Fostering Reflective Practice in Medical Students through Creative Writing, (book chapter) in:  Byers, J. & Forinash M. (2003) Educators, Therapists and Artists on Reflective Practice. N.Y. Lesley/Lang Series Publishers.

Hatem D, Ferrara E. Becoming a doctor: fostering humane caregivers through creative writing. Patient Education and Counseling. 45(2001)13-22.

Ferrara E.  The Role of Creative Writing in Medical Education. Worcester Medicine, Fall 2004

Ferrara  E.  Literature and Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Healthcare. Worcester Medicine, 2006

Selected Presentations on Creative Writing

Ferrara E., Bandman C.  Writing is Good Medicine and The Alchemy of Grief: Catalysts for Meaning in Illness, The Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, April 24-25, 2007.

Ferrara E. Transformational Writing and the Professional Development of Medical Students. Narrative Medicine Rounds, Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, NY, NY, November 6, 2003.                       

Ferrara E, Hatem D.  Supporting Professional Identity Development: Creative Writing as Reflective Practice in Medicine (poster). International Conference on Health & Communication, Barcelona, September 2000.

Teaching & Workshops

Creative Writing Course (Elective Course for 2^nd year medical students)

UMass Medical School, 1997-Present

Mindfulness Meditation & Reflective Writing Workshops (for student & faculty groups)

UMass Medical School, 2006-Present

True Voices: Creative Writing Workshop for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth, presented at Children from the Shadows IX Conference, University of Hartford, CT, 2002

Medical Creative Writing Workshop (for medicine and psychiatry residents)

Cambridge Health Alliance, 2005