Jan Steckel (Oakland, California) is a writer and disabled former pediatrician. Her poetry chapbook "The Underwater Hospital" (Zeitgeist Press, 2006) won an international Rainbow Award, and her fiction chapbook "Mixing Tracks" (Gertrude Press, 2009) won the 2009 Gertrude Press Fiction Chapbook Award. Her work has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Yale Medicine, Scholastic Magazine, Red Rock Review, The Pedestal Magazine, and elsewhere, and has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize.