R.E. Hengsterman, MSN, MA, M.E., RN, is a registered nurse, medical writer, and educator with more than three decades of experience in healthcare. He is the author of The Shift Worker’s Paradox and the forthcoming second edition of The Paper Boy and The Winter War. A Pushcart Prize–nominated storyteller with more than fifty publications in literary journals, he bridges science and narrative to illuminate the human condition. He lives and writes in North Carolina.Writer has not written anything about themselves.