Norbert Hirschhorn is a physician specializing
in the public health of women, children and communities in the
USA and the Third World. In 1993 he was commended by President
Bill Clinton as an "American Health Hero." He also holds
an MFA
from Vermont College. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming
in Anon, Ekphrasis, the eleventh muse, 5
AM, Hunger Mountain, Mediphors,
The New England Journal of Medicine, Prairie Schooner, Slow
Dancer,
Southern Poetry Review, and Wind. His poems have also appeared
in Vital Signs: The UCLA Collection of Physicians' Poetry (1990),
Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians (University of Iowa, 1998),
and as a prizewinner in the Chester H. Jones Foundation National
Poetry Competition (1998). He has been nominated for a Pushcart
Prize and was recently named one of the winners of the On-in-Ten
Comic Poetry competition, 2004, which will publish a limited edition
chapbook this fall. Hirschhorn's chapbook Renewal Soup (1996) and
his book-length collection A Cracked River (1999) were published
by Slow Dancer Press. A second collection, Confessions of a
Bricoleur,
is available for publication.
Photo by Cynthia Myntti
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