This is Meg’s story.

Writing and photography anchored me throughout the complexities of my life, especially in adolescence and in my prime when spinal and immunologic disease fundamentally changed how I moved and worked in the world. In the past I moved briskly, often gracefully, with a basketball or a bicycle to or from San Francisco General Hospital where, as a physician, I spent decades caring for people living with HIV and AIDS. These days are different; and the changes have enhanced my ability to pause, observe, and write about how a scene flows, characters shift, and relationships emerge.

I am committed to the craft of writing and appreciate the transformative nature of this art form. My longitudinal and guiding commitment is to build a more just and equitable society, and this can be felt in how I lead my life and, in my writing, including my upcoming collection of essays and short stories. As an Amherst Writers and Artists Facilitator, I’m serious about my writing and work to help others express themselves in writing as well.

Besides writing academic articles and chapters in the field of Medicine, my non-fiction writing “Excerpt from a Memoir” has been published, as the lead essay, in Perspectives in Medical Humanities; The Healing Art of Writing, edited by Joan Baranow PhD et al. Volume 1, published 2011 by the Medical Humanities Consortium and distributed by UC Press.

Most recently published in The Sun Magazine, Jimson Weed, Down in the Dirt, Litbreak Magazine and 2025 in a Flash. All published pieces are available to read in the Writing section of this website. A forthcoming piece, “Long Shot,” will be published in the January 2026 edition of Fiction on the Web.

I live in NH on unceded Native land with my wife and sibling cats Mango and Moonlight.