Jennifer Hanlon Wilde lives and writes in Oregon. She is a nurse practitioner and teacher who thinks of her work as opening a kind of map to study the well-worn places where storytelling intersects with health. She also enjoys real maps, traveling the world with her family, and, as a doctoral student at Washington State University, nerding out over global health data. A robust community theater and music scene, acres of orchards, and unparalleled local cider and beer have made it a joy to put down roots in the Columbia River Gorge, but being a Red Sox fan is in her DNA. Finding the Vein is her first novel.

Purchase Finding the Vein from OOLIGAN PRESS (who can be found in the exhibitor fair at the Portland Art Museum on Saturday, November 13), or from an indie bookstore: ANNIE BLOOM’S BOOKS | Broadway Books | POWELL’S BOOKS