Discipline: Literature – fiction

Lise Saffran

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Columbia, MO
MacDowell Fellowships: 2004
More: www.LiseSaffran.com
Lise Saffran studied public health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and fiction writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. Global health is a long-standing interest. She assisted with a family planning research project in Sri Lanka as a trainee and as a teacher has led several study abroad courses in public and community health in Ghana, West Africa. Lise’s published fiction includes the novel JUNO’S DAUGHTERS (Penguin/Plume 2011) and short stories in a variety of literary magazines. She has received fellowships from MacDowell and the Hedgebrook Community of writers and her nonfiction has been published in both academic and literary journals, including Academic Medicine, Medical Humanities, Poets and Writers, Orion, and On the Issues. Her research interests include the impact of fiction writing on health professions education and perceptions of social and contextual influences on health behavior. Her current work-in-progress is a collection of essays on life, death, creativity and community entitled SAFE IN THESE BODIES.

Studios

Heyward

Lise Saffran worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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