Katrin Den Elzen, PhD, is a research associate in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University, Perth, Australia and a Writing-for-wellbeing lecturer for graduate students in expressive art therapies, Murdoch University, Perth. She works as a grief counselor and Writing-for-wellbeing facilitator.

Reinekke Lengelle, PhD, is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Athabasca University, Canada and a researcher at The Hague University. Her book Writing the Self in Bereavement: A Story of Love, Spousal Loss, and Resilience won the Best Book Award for Ethnography in 2021 and the Qualitative Inquiry Book Award in 2022.

Introduction Reinekke Lengelle and Katrin Den Elzen

Part I: Voicing the Self

Chapter 1: When your Partner Dies: A Conversation about Writing and Post-Traumatic Growth in WidowhoodKatrin Den Elzen & Reinekke Lengelle

Chapter 2: Poetry and Connection: Encounter, Surprise, and Dialogue Reinekke Lengelle, Jon Sayers, & Geri Giebel Chavis

Chapter 3: "The Write Road" to Self-Discovery, Recovery, and Growth Stephanie Dale

Part II: The Pedagogy of Personal Trauma Narrative in Higher Education

Chapter 4: Managing Life Writing and Trauma: A Reflection Sue Joseph

Chapter 5: The Self as Chambered Nautilus: Discovering the Healing Power of Writing as a Graduate Student Jennifer Bertrand

Chapter 6: Writing as an Antidepressant in a Pandemic Jeffrey Berman

Chapter 7: Teaching Therapeutic Writing in a Higher Education Context Claire Williamson

Part III: Particapatory Research

Chapter 8: Narrating Grief and Loss: A Writing-For-Wellbeing Study Katrin Den Elzen and Robert A. Neimeyer

Part IV: Human Rights: Preserving Dignity and Writing-As-Resistance

Chapter 9: Life Writing as Resistance: Human Rights Defender Behrouz Boochani and Australia's Offshore Detention Regime Rahel Den Elzen and Adrienne Munro

Chapter 10: A Black Woman's Blog Posts: Writing for Personal and Social Empowerment and Healing Menah Pratt

Chapter 11: Creative Writing, Reading and Queer Belonging: Gender Insubordination in the American Deep South Dallas Baker

Part V: Voicing Identity

Chapter 12: Doctors Hold Untold Stories too: Writing the Self in Medicine and Health as an Act of Self-Care Anne Taylor

Chapter 13: Memoir and Reader Perception: The Reader-Author Relationship Katrin Den Elzen