About

Frank J. Edwards is a writer, emergency physician, and medical educator. He has published three novels, two nonfiction medical books, a collection of poems and stories, and a book of poetry. His short stories and poems have appeared in literary journals including The Virginia Quarterly Review. He won Louisiana State University’s Eyster Prize in short fiction. Prior to receiving a BA degree from UNC Chapel Hill, he served as a US Army helicopter pilot in Vietnam. He graduated from the University of Rochester School of Medicine, and earned an MFA in writing from Warren Wilson College. He taught creative writing to medical students for many years, and directed an emergency medicine residency program. He lives in Western New York with his wife, an emergency nurse and equestrian.