name: Karen Hitchcock
genres: Medicine, Fiction
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about: Karen Hitchcock is the author of the award-winning short-story collection Little White Slips and Dear Life: On caring for the elderly (Quarterly Essay 57) and a regular contributor to the Monthly. She is a staff physician in acute and general medicine at a large city public hospital, and has a PhD in English and creative writing.