
Bradley Firchow is a Kentucky-based writer and medical student whose work examines the human and ecological complexities of Appalachian life. His essays and stories draw from his clinical experiences in rural medicine and his long-standing commitment to narrative as a tool for understanding place. His work has appeared in Academic Medicine, Testament: A Rural Anthology, Salvation South, and elsewhere. He is at work on a collection of fiction exploring care, identity, and the ties that bind people to the mountains.