Amy Haddad

Amy Haddad is a nurse, ethicist and poet who taught in the health sciences at Creighton University in Omaha, NE from 1988-2018. She has co-authored and edited several textbooks in bioethics, health professional and patient interactions, and home care. Her poetry and short stories have been published in the American Journal of Nursing, Janus Head, Journal of Medical Humanities, Touch, Bellevue Literary Review, Pulse, Persimmon Tree, Annals of Internal Medicine, Aji Magazine, DASH, Oberon Poetry Magazine and the anthologies Between the Heart Beats and Intensive Care: More Poetry and Prose by Nurses, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa. She is the 2019 winner of the Annals of Internal Medicine poetry prize for “Families Like This” for the best poem published in the journal. She won third-place in the 2019 Kalanithi Writing Awards from Stanford University for her poem “Dark Rides.” Her chapbook, "The Geography of Kitchens" was published by Finishing Line Press in 2021. Her first poetry collection, “An Otherwise Healthy Woman,” was published by Backwaters Press, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press in 2022. The collection won first place in the Creative Works category of the American Journal of Nursing 2022 Books of the Year Awards.