Lifelines (journal)

Lifelines is an annual literary journal published by the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.

Lifelines
DisciplineLiterary journal
LanguageEnglish
Edited byColin McLeish, Diana Lee, Renisa Ramnath
Publication details
History2004–present
Publisher
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (USA)
FrequencyAnnual
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Lifelines
Indexing
ISSN2373-5163
LCCN2014202955
OCLC no.57178237
Links

The journal has featured work by Guggenheim fellows, winners of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition, doctors, patients, students and faculty of the Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth College, as well as from new authors and artists. Fiction from the journal has been included in The Best American Short Stories series.[1][2] In 2013, a short story featured by the journal was performed as a one-act play at The Players' Ring Theater in Portsmouth, NH.[3][4][5]

History

Lifelines was founded in 2002 by Sai Li (MED’06) and established with the publication of the first issue in Fall 2004.[6] The journal is published annually.

Li envisioned the journal as a canvas for literature and art that would "enhance the atmosphere of the health-care community by instilling in its readers a respect for the enduring human spirit and a profound hope for better understanding and dialogue between doctors and patients."[7]

The journal is supported by the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and the Fannie and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College. The copyright is owned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College. Initially an online publication, the journal is now published in print and cataloged by the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College.[8]

Content

The prose, poetry, and art featured in the journal aim to represent the multitude of human experiences in life, illness, and death. The journal seeks to overcome the separation in discourse between science and the humanities, while recognizing the challenges in combining the two.[9]

Lifelines publishes work by current and former students, faculty, writers, and artists.[10] Priority for inclusion in the journal is given to students, faculty, and alumni of the medical school, but exceptions are made for distinguished work.

Chief Editors
  • Sai Li, 2004
  • Cara Haberman, 2005
  • Meghan McCoy, 2006
  • Cindy Nu Chai, 2008
  • Jessica Linden Swienckowski, 2012
  • Rachel LaRocca, 2013
  • Lawrence Kuklinski, 2013
  • Liam Guerin, 2017
  • George Knaysi, 2018
  • Cameron Yi, 2018
  • Colin McLeish, 2019
  • Diana Lee, 2019
  • Renisa Ramnath, 2019

See also

References
  1. Ravenel, S, ed. (2002). The Best American Short Stories. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  2. Moore, L, ed. (2004). The Best American Short Stories. Mariner Books.
  3. Earle, Sarah (July 12, 2013). "Concord High teacher moonlights as playwright in Portsmouth". Concord Monitor. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23.
  4. Plenda (June 19, 2014). "Teacher-playwright merges humor, drama". Concord Monitor.
  5. Sommers, Aaron (2012). "A Cross Section of the Hirschfields" (PDF). Lifelines.
  6. "Vital Signs: Touched by Medicine". Dartmouth Medicine. Fall 2004.
  7. "Art in Medicine Recognized" (Press release). Dartmouth Medical School. November 10, 2004.
  8. Lifelines: a Dartmouth Medical School literary journal. OCLC 646810823 – via WorldCat.
  9. Rousseau, GS (1986). "Literature and Medicine: Towards a Simultaneity of Theory and Practice". Literature and Medicine. 5: 152–181. doi:10.1353/lm.2011.0297. PMID 3503159. S2CID 27906164.
  10. The Prose of a Practitioner (Radio). New Hampshire Public Radio. July 2012.
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