Margaret Nowaczyk is a pediatric geneticist and writer who lives in Hamilton, ON. Her memoir Chasing Zebras was published in 2021. “Metanoias” is part of her forthcoming collection of essays from Wolsak & Wynn.
Margaret Nowaczyk
Dispatches
Room for More
Narrative text, written and spoken, refines a doctor’s ability to hear a patients’ stories.
Margaret Nowaczyk
Dispatches
Knitting Class
During World War II my grandmother ran contraband, hunted pigeons.
Margaret Nowaczyk
Dispatches
Contact No Contact
Personal narratives by Indigenous and settler contributors describing significant first contacts that brought new insights.
Margaret Nowaczyk
Dispatches
Ad Infinitum
"I stared in awe at the pink-petalled flowers of human tissue blossoming in the mass of a collapsed grey-brown lung as it was reinflated during a thoracotomy."