Jeremy Norton, a 24-year veteran firefighter/EMT with the Minneapolis Fire Department, has saved lives and witnessed too many deaths, but has yet to catch a baby. Originally from Washington, D.C., he has taught high school literature in three states and adult creative writing at Minneapolis’ Loft Literary Center. Norton writes about the confluence of individual and systemic issues in our society, particularly the gutter-end of the healthcare system, emergency response and end-of-life issues. Trauma Sponges is his first book.

Featured title: Trauma Sponges: Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response

Website: https://www.jeremynorton.info/

JEREMY’S EVENTS:

• Friday, Sept. 20 @ 11:30 a.m. – Writing to Purge the Ghosts: An EMS Variation on The Things They Carried – Brookings Public Library, Cooper Room B
• Friday, Sept. 20 @ 4:30 p.m. – Author Signing Event – The Oscar, Fishback Studio Theater (154), Brookings
• Saturday, Sept 21 @ 10:15 a.m. – Moral Injuries in Healthcare: Finding Resilience as an Eyewitness to Suffering, Dying, and Death – The Oscar, Classroom 105, Brookings
• Saturday, Sept. 21 @ 4:30 p.m. – Author Signing Event – The Oscar, Fishback Studio Theater (154), Brookings

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