Liz Bowen edits the Disability section of Public Books. A poet and critic living in New York, she is the author of the poetry collections Sugarblood (Metatron, 2017) and Compassion Fountain (Trembling Pillow, 2020). She is an assistant professor in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University, as well as a Presidential Scholar at The Hastings Center. Liz is a senior poetry editor at Peach Mag, and assistant editor at Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. Her writing can be found in the New Inquiry, American Poetry Review, LitHub, Boston Review, and elsewhere.
Liz Bowen
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Writing on Public Books
Can You Predict What You’ll Need? Talking Time, Space, and Disability with Margaret Price
“The experience of disability has this curious hard-to-see quality, even while also being weirdly out in the open, garishly apparent.”
“I Can’t Make You See What I See”: Talking with Cyree Jarelle Johnson and Jesse Rice-Evans
“Writing about lupus is like writing about ghosts. What do you say about something featureless?” [none-for-homepage]
We Must Heal Each Other
At some point, it became a mark of privilege to talk about “self-care.” Once unknown outside the niches of trauma therapists and burned-out activists, the concept has become so mainstream that it’s now regularly used as shorthand for celebrity beauty routines. Meanwhile, corporate elites promote self-care among employees in hopes of cutting their losses in […]
