Author

Catalina Florina Florescu

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Catalina Florina Florescu is a Romanian born American scholar and educator. Her PhD in Comparative Lit/Medical Humanities (Purdue Univ.) has made her more aware of the complexities between health and its ramifications in literature, society, culture, day-to-day life. She teaches undergrad courses at Pace Univ. and grad seminars at SIT. She has published creatively and scholarly books, book chapters, essays, plays, poems, etc. Right now, she works on a book about cancer, theater, and medicine (in English), and a fictionalized memoir (in Romanian).

Creative Nonfiction

Of rats and mice

Men were very fond of their time alone underground. They returned from work. They had supper. They went downstairs and talked about things their wives and kids would not be...