''Bellevue Literary Review'' (''BLR'') is an independent literary journal that publishes fiction, nonfiction and poetry about the human body, illness, health and healing. It was founded in 2001 in

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and was published by the Division of Medical Humanities at

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. ''BLR'' became an independent journal in 2020.

Danielle Ofri Danielle Ofri is an American essayist, editor, and practicing internist. She is an attending physician at Bellevue Hospital, and a clinical professor of medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. Her writing appears in ''The New York ...

is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of ''BLR''. The managing editor is Stacy Bodziak, Suzanne McConnell is fiction editor, Sarah Sala is poetry editor, and the nonfiction editor is Damon Tweedy. Selections from the ''BLR'' have been reprinted in the Pushcart Prize anthology, and have appeared on the notable lists of

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, Best American Travel Writing, and

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. ''BLR'' hosts an annual writing competition, and free public readings featuring its authors and also hosts the ''Off the Page'' performance series with actors giving dramatic readings from the journal. It also offers free study guides and reading group guides, as well as a general discussion guide for its anthology, ''The Best of The Bellevue Literary Review''. The imprint Bellevue Literary Press was founded in 2007. It was funded through donations by ''BLR'' nonfiction editor Jerome Lowenstein.

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