''Lifelines'' is an annual

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published by the

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at Dartmouth. The journal has featured work by Guggenheim fellows, winners of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition, doctors, patients, students and faculty of the

and

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, as well as from new authors and artists. Fiction from the journal has been included in

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series. In 2013, a short story featured by the journal was performed as a

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History

''Lifelines'' was founded in 2002 by Sai Li (MED’06) and established with the publication of the first issue in Fall 2004. The journal is published annually. Li envisioned the journal as a canvas for literature and art that would "enhance the atmosphere of the health-care community by instilling in its readers a respect for the enduring human spirit and a profound hope for better understanding and dialogue between doctors and patients." The journal is supported by the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement at the

at Dartmouth, and the Fannie and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities at

. The copyright is owned by the Trustees of

. Initially an online publication, the journal is now published in print and cataloged by the Rauner Special Collections Library at

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The

prose Prose is a form of written or spoken language that follows the natural flow of speech, uses a language's ordinary grammatical structures, or follows the conventions of formal academic writing. It differs from most traditional poetry, where the f ...

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

, and

art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...

featured in the journal aim to represent the multitude of human experiences in life, illness, and death. The journal seeks to overcome the separation in discourse between science and the humanities, while recognizing the challenges in combining the two. ''Lifelines'' publishes work by current and former students, faculty, writers, and artists. Priority for inclusion in the journal is given to students, faculty, and alumni of the medical school, but exceptions are made for distinguished work.

Chief Editors

*Sai Li, 2004 *Cara Haberman, 2005 *Meghan McCoy, 2006 *Cindy Nu Chai, 2008 *Jessica Linden Swienckowski, 2012 *Rachel LaRocca, 2013 *Lawrence Kuklinski, 2013 *Liam Guerin, 2017 *George Knaysi, 2018 *Cameron Yi, 2018 *Colin McLeish, 2019 *Diana Lee, 2019 *Renisa Ramnath, 2019

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