Daniel J. Waters

DANIEL JAMES WATERS. D.O., M.A., is a native of Southern New Jersey. He graduated from Bishop Eustace Preparatory School, St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and has been publishing stories since 1981. His work, which includes short and long-form fiction, essays, medical satire, creative nonfiction, and poetry, has appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, The New Physician, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine (Columbia University), The Examined Life: Literary Journal of the Carver College of Medicine (University of Iowa), the North Carolina Literary Review (East Carolina University), The Missouri Review (University of Missouri) and the online literary journal Typishly. He received the 2020 Nancy Pearl Award for Best Book from the Pacific Northwest Writers Association as well as a First Place Award for an essay in the Creative Nonfiction/Memoir Category in PNWA's 2020 Literary Contest. He practiced open heart surgery for thirty years and is the author of "A Heart Surgeon's Little Instruction Book" and "A Surgeon's Little Instruction Book," pocket collections of surgical wisdom, advice, and aphorisms that are still quoted today, as well as eight novels. He was a Writing Fellow for the medical website Doximity and provides regular content for other digital platforms as well. In addition to undergraduate and medical degrees, he holds a Graduate Certificate in Narrative Healthcare and a Master of Arts in Writing from The Center for Graduate Studies at Asheville/The Thomas Wolfe Center for Narrative at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Asheville, NC. He lives with his wife in Clear Lake, Iowa.