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Josephine Ensign teaches health policy, health humanities, and community health at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is an alumna of Hedgebrook, the Jack Straw Writers Program, and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. Her essays have appeared in The Sun, Front Porch Journal, The Oberlin Alumni Magazine, Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine, Silk Road, The Intima, Electric Literature/Okey-Panky, The Examined Life Journal, Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine, and in the nonfiction anthology: I Wasn’t Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse edited by Lee Gutkind. Her medical memoir, Catching Homelessness: A Nurse’s Story of Falling Through the Safety Net (Berkeley: She Writes Press, 2016) was selected as the UW Health Sciences Common Book for academic year 2016/17. She has completed her second nonfiction book manuscript, Soul Stories: Voices from the Margins, about the role of narrative in health and healing in the context of trauma.