This site attempts to provide the diverse outcomes of supporting U of MN authors, across the professional life-cycle from trainee to emeritus faculty, in learning to write narratively about their experiences; creating a space for self-publishing of their stories; establishing a confederacy of writers on campus looking to advance the genre as a legitimate form of scholarship; and engaging a broader community of readers in conversation about the complexities and wonder inherent in health and basic sciences. The genre called creative nonfiction, described by Lee Gutkind, as a "story...that serves to communicate information and to make a point."(http://www.leegutkind.com/cnf_genre.html)