Nancy J. Nordenson

Selected Works

Essays
Spinning and Being Spun
Comment Magazine, September 2010
Things That Fall and Things That Stand
Anthology selection, Fall 2010
Witness
Under the Sun, Summer 2010
Ontology
Harpur Palate, Summer 2009
A Place at the Table
Relief, Spring 2009
Waves and Oscillations
Desert Call, Fall 2008
Nothing Can Separate
Relief, Fall 2006, Editor's Choice Creative Nonfiction
Books
Just Think: Nourish Your Mind to Feed Your Soul
With thinking as spiritual practice, mind meets soul and both are bound together.
Medical Writing
Freelance Medical Writing Services
Medical/health writer with more than a decade of experience

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Nancy J. [Erickson] Nordenson is a creative writer and a medical writer. On the creative side of things, she is a graduate of Seattle Pacific University's MFA in Creative Writing program and author of Just Think: Nourish Your Mind to Feed Your Soul (Baker). Her work has received "notable" recognition in Best American Essays 2010 and a Pushcart nomination and has appeared in Harpur Palate, Comment, Under the Sun, Relief, and Desert Call. One of her essays was included in the anthology The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting Toward God (Cascade Press, 2010), which was edited by Leslie Leyland Fields, who is on the program's creative nonfiction faculty. Another essay is forthcoming in the anthology Becoming, to be published by the University of Nebraska.

On the medical side, with more than 14 years of experience, she writes for a variety of venues including continuing medical education, journals, legal reference books, corporate advisory groups, and national and international medical symposia.

She is a member of the Authors Guild, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, the Loft Literary Center, the American Society for Clinical Pathology, and the American Medical Writers Association. Nancy and her husband have two sons and live in Minneapolis.

Nancy J. Nordenson is a creative writer and a medical writer. On the creative side of things, she is a recent graduate of Seattle Pacific University's MFA in Creative Writing program and author of Just Think: Nourish Your Mind to Feed Your Soul (Baker). Additional work has appeared or is forthcoming in Relief, Harpur Palate, North Dakota Quarterly, and Desert Call. On the medical side, she writes for a variety of venues including continuing medical education, journals, legal reference books, corporate advisory groups, and national and international medical symposia. She is a member of the Authors Guild, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, the Loft Literary Center, the American Society for Clinical Pathology, and the American Medical Writers Association. Nancy and her husband live in Minneapolis and have two sons making their way in the world.