Nina Gaby

Essays, art, and healthcare

Publications

Books color

Interviews:

This Is (Almost) 72: Nina Gaby Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaireby Sari Botton

https://wordpress.com/post/ninagaby.wordpress.com/989         (interview with Shirley Dawson for Art and Perception)

https://www.rochester.edu/pr/Review/V77N5/1001_masterclass.html

Anthologies:

“Sleepless Woman Tries to Give Herself A Mani-Pedi, Draws Blood and Tears” in Writing Through the Apocalypse, Weeping Willow Press (ed-Meier) 2023

“Looking South on Main” in Main, Hippocampus (ed-Talarico) 2021

“Crying at the Post Office, or Help I Can’t Find My Eyebrows” in (Her)oics: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Corona Virus Pandemic, Regal House (ed-Roost and Serra) 2021

“Bring Back the Batakas: a long view” in Fury: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Trump Era, Regal House (ed-Roost and Hirshfeld) 2020

“On Mentioning that our Daughter Wants to become a Mortician” in What Remains, the Many Ways We Say Goodbye, Gelles-Cole Literary Enterprises (ed- Gelles-Cole and Salzman) 2019 reprinted from Dodge Magazine, Spring 2011   (anthology shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Prize 2021)

 “A Couple Bad Nights in Brindisi” in: A Second Blooming: Becoming the Women We are Meant to Be, Mercer University Press (ed-Cushman) 2017

“I’m Not Supposed to Love You” in: How Does That Make You Feel: True Confessions from Both Sides of the Therapy Couch” Seal Press (ed-Amatenstein) 2017

“Simple Arithmetic” in: Dumped: Stories of Women Unfriending Women, She Writes Press (ed-Gaby) 2015

“No Stranger” in: Mothering Through the Darkness-Women Open Up About the Postpartum Experience (ed-Smock and Sprenger), She Writes Press 2015

“Like Cave Dwellers” in: The Best of the Burlington Writer’s Workshop, Burlington Writer’s Workshop (ed-Armstrong, Biello, Frankel,Keller) 2015

3 prose poems in: Classifieds, and Anthology of Prose Poems, Equinox Press (ed-Clay) 2013

“Careening Towards Reunion” in: I Wasn’t Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse (ed-Gutkind) In Fact Books 2013

“The Inventories We Keep” and “What Matters and What We Might Want to Forget” in: View from the Bed, View from the Bedside, Wising-Up Press (ed-Tosteson, Langton, Brockett) 2010

“Making a Minyan in Vermont” in: The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change, Seal Press (ed-Strong and Rowe-Finkbeiner) 2008

“The Thong Question” in: I Wanna be Sedated-30 Writers on Parenting Teenagers, Seal Press (ed- Conlon and Hudson) 2005

“Seating Arrangements” in: Women Behaving Badly, Paper Journey Press (ed- Murkherjee) 2004

“Winter Rental” in: Original Sin-The Seven Deadlies Come Home to Roost, Paper Journey Press (ed- Murkherjee) 2004

 Selected on-line journals and blog sites:

Short Takes: Resistance and Resilience

https://www.dorothyparkersashes.com/current-issue/drunk-mother

 

Luge Run, 2003

https://www.meetinghousemag.org/stories/gaby

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/fighters

In “Multiplicity Magazine” 11-18-20:

In Spite of Negative Consequences

https://www.healthywomen.org/real-women-real-stories/for-now-im-managing-my-unpredictable-chronic-illness-with-yoga-and-mindfulness

http://www.theintima.org/blog/thoughts-on-doctors-and-disobedience-by-nina-gaby-aprn-pmh-cns?fbclid=IwAR2W41CoHR834G9zVCnmLQDeKUNJGAjF-BYnm36cdlqZJaQNXs7CoR3Myt0

Power, Politics, and Farming: Planting Social Justice from the Soil Up

Nina Gaby: Many factors fail those addicted to opioids

NPR “The New Normal,” featured blog story, 8-10-20

http://www.theintima.org/yours

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/coronavirus/rethinking-countertransference-age-covid-19?fbclid=IwAR33E2kWgGPPR3-j99ZJmy7XpRVHAqevh9wyWedCqx-w1-Amq8uuxjwp8Cw

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-force-outside-myself-citizens-over-60-speak?fbclid=IwAR2vOn735Ek6zptNk7cyyLQDJkXtDE-_Yybm4iMqMz_efBTgfu85B1MRM7A#Gaby

https://therumpus.net/2019/12/voices-on-addiction-jack-and-the-boss/

https://aftertheart.com/2019/03/19/certain-imperfection-revisiting-zetsu-no-8/#more-200

https://www.themanifeststation.net/2019/03/11/getting-up-offa-that-thing/

“A Safe Place to Roost” https://entropymag.org/the-birdsa-safe-place-to-roost/?fbclid=IwAR30SCSD_VM16ew2MG1sEWkxhHqhc0yEM-RNhjqYyMFhSMXHhMTSIZmxoKo

https://newmillenniumwritings.org/nina-gaby-sum-of-its-parts-musepaper-2018/ “The Sum of it’s Parts” winner Monthly Muse- New Millenium Writings 2018

 “Shivers Like That” Proximity. http://proximitymagazine.org/project/13-gaby/ 2017

“Recovering my Alternative Factuality: A Thank You to Mr. Trump”                                   The Manifest-Station  http://www.themanifeststation.net/2017/04/01/recovering-alternative-factuality-thank-mr-trump/ 2017

“Not Quite Forgiveness, a Yoga Story” The Manifest-Station http://www.themanifeststation.net/tag/nina-gaby/ 2017

“Paying Partial Attention Knowing an Alternative Route Would be Out of the Question”, Entropy. https://entropymag.org/paying-partial-attention-knowing-an-alternative-route-would-be-out-of-the-question/ 2016

“One Rule from a Working Life” runner-up in the Robert DeMott Short Prose Contest, Quarter After Eight 2016

 “When I Was Japanese: On Transparency, Translucency, Opacity in Memoir” essay finalist, The Diagram. http://thediagram.com/16_6/gaby.html 2015

“The Baby on the Bus,” Intima: Journal of Medical Narrative. https://ninagaby.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/e3ef1-thebabyonthebus.pdf  2015

“Another Reflection on the Slippery Slope of Compassion,” Intima: Journal of Medical Narrative. http://www.theintima.org/blog/another-reflection-on-the-slippery-slope-of-compassion-by-nina-gaby-aprn-pmh  2015

Brevity’s Non-fiction blog:

https://brevity.wordpress.com/2022/05/16/on-making-art/#comment-196405

https://brevity.wordpress.com/2021/08/23/bricolage/

https://brevity.wordpress.com/tag/rage-room/

https://brevity.wordpress.com/2019/12/16/preamble-ramble/#comment-85364

https://brevity.wordpress.com/2018/10/15/mirrors-and-microprose/

 https://brevity.wordpress.com/2017/02/06/im-writing-like-a-mf-again-a-thank-you-note-to-dj-trump/

https://brevity.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/memoir_vessels/

https://brevity.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/why-a-good-editor-is-like-a-good-psychotherapist/ 

https://brevity.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/mapping-the-lyrical-essay/

https://brevity.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/dsm5/

 Publications:

 “D is for…Diagnosis” Myslexia, issue 72, 2016/2017

“Denial-Deviation-Perfusion” VOX, Rock and Sling, special inauguration edition, 2017

 “On Mentioning that our Daughter Wants to become a Mortician” Dodge Magazine, Spring 2011

“The Anti-Zen of Grandma” Lilith Magazine, Spring 2008 https://www.lilith.org/articles/the-anti-zen-of-grandma/

 

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