This poem is included in the digital library as part of a partnership between the OHSU Library and the Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative to share Narrative Medicine curriculum and the items used in those teaching sessions. For additional information about how the poem is used in teaching and a community driven context, please visit Accessible Narrative Medicine website.

Together with four volumes of poetry, Victoria Chang is the author of the picture book Is Mommy?, which was chosen as a 2015 New York Times Notable Children's Book. She teaches poetry at Chapman University and Orange County School of the Arts. In 2017, she received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. (Source: blackbird.vcu.edu/)

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