BODY, June / July 2026 (Vol 11, No. 3)
Our annual BODY issue is back for the 10th year! As always, this incredibly popular and poignant issue covers all the body-related concerns and preoccupations that a breast cancer diagnosis brings. We asked our writers to tell their body-by-breast cancer story and show us the transformation brought on by their diagnosis. From breast changes, to hair, to body image issues, to the physical symptoms of early menopause and treatment or surgery, and beyond this big issue covers it all in moving & raw essays and poetry, and in beautiful artwork.
Within this issue, you will find 24 writers representing these diagnosis details:
- Diagnosis ages: 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s
- Breast cancer types: DCIS, IDC, ILC, and Inflammatory
- Initial Stages: 0 - IV
- Receptors: ER/PR+, HER2+, TNBC, and Triple Positive
- Single & multiple diagnoses
Contributors:
Guest Editor Dana Donofree, Founder of AnaOno
Cover Star Nekeia Wilson, photo by Julie Holder
A Millennial’s Feminine Reckoning by Lydia Amaral | The Mirror and The Crown by Latanya Bispham-Robinson |The Stories of Scars by Jessica Doig | The Guest Editor’s Note by Dana Donofree | The Word She Came Back To by Dana Donofree and Julie Holder | My Body Knows Before I Do by Jennifer Gordon | What God Gave Me by Anne Hilder | What I Know Now by Ashley Johnson | Undeniable by Kelly Kelbel | Disco at the Fugue by Erin Kenny | Betrayal and Forgiveness by Teckla King-O’Connor | Three by Heather Krom | The Body Without a Manual by Kia Lee | Porcelain by Mary Beth Lehman | Every Little Thing by Lauren M. Lemoine, PhD | Poe Poes by Maddy Levi | My Body Remembers the Way Home by Gillian Lichota | Because. No Nipples. by Lindsay Lupi | She Speaks by Katie Murray | Vignettes on My Body by Anj Oto | Bald Me Still Loves Garlic Aioli by Kiera Powers Quezada | A Collection of Scars by Katie Rabinowitz | The Present by Jennifer Wildermuth Reyes | The Body I Dress Now by Mary Carmel 'Mar' Serna | What I Got Instead by Kaitlyn Tomeno | Ode to This Body by Emily Voreas
BODY, June / July 2026 (Vol 11, No. 3)
Our annual BODY issue is back for the 10th year! As always, this incredibly popular and poignant issue covers all the body-related concerns and preoccupations that a breast cancer diagnosis brings. We asked our writers to tell their body-by-breast cancer story and show us the transformation brought on by their diagnosis. From breast changes, to hair, to body image issues, to the physical symptoms of early menopause and treatment or surgery, and beyond this big issue covers it all in moving & raw essays and poetry, and in beautiful artwork.
Within this issue, you will find 24 writers representing these diagnosis details:
- Diagnosis ages: 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s
- Breast cancer types: DCIS, IDC, ILC, and Inflammatory
- Initial Stages: 0 - IV
- Receptors: ER/PR+, HER2+, TNBC, and Triple Positive
- Single & multiple diagnoses
Contributors:
Guest Editor Dana Donofree, Founder of AnaOno
Cover Star Nekeia Wilson, photo by Julie Holder
A Millennial’s Feminine Reckoning by Lydia Amaral | The Mirror and The Crown by Latanya Bispham-Robinson |The Stories of Scars by Jessica Doig | The Guest Editor’s Note by Dana Donofree | The Word She Came Back To by Dana Donofree and Julie Holder | My Body Knows Before I Do by Jennifer Gordon | What God Gave Me by Anne Hilder | What I Know Now by Ashley Johnson | Undeniable by Kelly Kelbel | Disco at the Fugue by Erin Kenny | Betrayal and Forgiveness by Teckla King-O’Connor | Three by Heather Krom | The Body Without a Manual by Kia Lee | Porcelain by Mary Beth Lehman | Every Little Thing by Lauren M. Lemoine, PhD | Poe Poes by Maddy Levi | My Body Remembers the Way Home by Gillian Lichota | Because. No Nipples. by Lindsay Lupi | She Speaks by Katie Murray | Vignettes on My Body by Anj Oto | Bald Me Still Loves Garlic Aioli by Kiera Powers Quezada | A Collection of Scars by Katie Rabinowitz | The Present by Jennifer Wildermuth Reyes | The Body I Dress Now by Mary Carmel 'Mar' Serna | What I Got Instead by Kaitlyn Tomeno | Ode to This Body by Emily Voreas
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