Broken bodies tell broken stories.
The Body Alone is a hybrid memoir exploring the experience, meaning, and articulation of pain. Braided, looping, full of stops and twists, it uses research and scholarship to examine chronic pain through the lenses of medicine, theology, and philosophy.
In both form and content, The Body Alone represents boundary-pressing work that subverts the traditional narrative by putting pressure on the medical, cultural, and political systems that impact women’s access to fair and equal healthcare. This is more than an illness narrative; it is a battle cry demanding change.
Nina Lohman is the author of The Body Alone (University of Iowa Press, 2024). Originally from California, she is the founder and publisher of Brink, a publishing and production house validating unconventional narratives on and off the page. The former Literary Director of the Mission Creek Festival, she is an Iowa Artist Fellow.