Madeleine Mysko teaches creative writing in the part-time graduate program of The Johns Hopkins University and coordinates the Reflections column for the American Journal of Nursing. Her work has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Shenandoah, Smartish Pace, Issue 11, and The Hudson Review. She is the author of Bringing Vincent Home (Plain View, 2007), a novel based on her experiences as an Army nurse. [bio updated 2011]