The Cancer Credential

Cancer can give writers a special edge.

BY Laura Yeager

PUBLISHED June 28, 2018

As well as being a cancer blogger, Laura Yeager is a religious essayist and a mental health blogger. A graduate of The Writers’ Workshop at The University of Iowa, she teaches writing at Kent State University and Gotham Writers’ Workshop. Laura survived cancer twice.

As well as writing for curetody.com, I teach online creative writing at a writing school in New York City. Most of my co-teachers have published several books. But while they were writing novels and memoirs, I was dealing with two bouts of cancer. I do have one book out there, my master's thesis, First Aid and Other Stories, that was digitally published by Iowa State University. But to me, this doesn't really count.

Because I don't have big, bloc
Because I don't have big, blockbuster publications, you'd think that students wouldn't want to study writing with me. But I draw students.
How?
I have many publications in journals and magazines and on websites. This brings students to my door. But there's something else.

I have the cancer credential. (Read More.....)