Tendon Editorial Team
Zephyr Hameem
Zephyr Hameem is a medical student at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. She completed her undergraduate education at Saint Louis University in 2021, where she studied Neuroscience and Creative Writing, and later earned her M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University in 2022. Her works have been published in The Kiln Project and Ripple Magazine. […]
Maggie Hart
Maggie Hart is a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, where she studies medical rhetoric, rhetoric of the body, embodied research methodologies, and narrative medicine. As a writer, Maggie is a Pushcart Prize nominee and her creative nonfiction has been featured in Narratively, The Audacity, The Blood Project, Mud Season Review, December, and elsewhere. […]
Caitlin Annette Johnson
Caitlin Annette Johnson was born in the South and lives in NYC. Their writing has appeared in NonBinary Review, Anodyne, Dunes Review, and others. In addition to their role as Fiction Editor at Tendon, they currently serve as Production Editor for MAYDAY Magazine. When not reading or writing, Johnson hosts free workshops in her community, […]
Jessica Leigh Hester
Jessica Leigh Hester is a PhD candidate in History at Johns Hopkins University. Her research examines social and political organizing in response to grave robbings perpetrated by and for medical schools in the nineteenth-century United States. Also a journalist and essayist, her work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times, New York Times […]
George MacLeod
George MacLeod is a writer and interdisciplinary artist based in Philadelphia. Before joining the team, two of their nonfiction pieces were featured in Tendon, in addition to a wacky livestream video that showcased their very own shoulder surgery. Most recently, their video essay Winter Games was presented as a weeklong site-specific installation from sunset to […]
SJ Zanolini
SJ Zanolini is a PhD candidate in the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, with prior graduate degrees in Chinese Literature and Traditional East Asian Medicine. Their dissertation focuses on medicinal discourse about cheap and widely available foods such as porridge, sweet potatoes, and seaweed in early modern China, first as a means of […]
Alexandra Kaul
Alexandra Kaul is a writer, anthropologist, and past Tendon contributor. Her research investigates the interplay of memory, ecology, and white supremacy in her native Germany and the Pacific Northwest. Her work has been featured in the Society for Cultural Anthropology’s Fieldsights series and The Georgia Review. She is currently finishing a book-length meditative essay on […]
Alise Leiboff
Alise Leiboff received her undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University in 2021, where she studied the Medical Humanities, French, and the Visual Arts. She then went on to obtain a Master’s in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University in 2023. Now a medical student at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Leiboff seeks to tread the […]
Iro Filippaki
Iro Filippaki is a Medical Humanities scholar, focusing on literary representations of physical and mental trauma. After completing her graduate studies at the University of Glasgow, and a postdoctoral research post at Johns Hopkins University, Iro has returned to Athens, Greece where she currently teaches Medical Humanities and other interdisciplinary courses at the American College […]
Alex Parry
Alex Parry is an Assistant Professor of Health Humanities and Bioethics at the University of Rochester Medical Center and a historian of public health. His research focuses on injuries, product safety, and child health. He received his M.A. in Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Oklahoma and his Ph.D. in the History of […]