WORTH, Apr / May 2026 (Vol 11, No. 2)
This new issue of Wildfire showcases stories about navigating money, employment, identity, and value in the aftermath of breast cancer. From money and career to purpose and worthiness.
We asked our writers to tell us the truth of what cancer costs — financially, emotionally, spiritually — to rebuild a life. And tell us where they found their own definition of worth along the way.
Within this issue, you will find 22 writers representing these diagnosis details:
- Diagnosis ages: 20s, 30s, and 40s
- Breast cancer types: DCIS, IDC, and Inflammatory
- Initial Stages: 0 - IV
- Receptors: ER/PR+, HER2+, TNBC, and Triple Positive
- Single & multiple diagnoses
Contributors:
Guest Editor Laura Carfang, Founder & CEO of SurvivingBreastCancer.org
Cover Star Laura Carfang
Hitting on a Male Nurse While on Drugs by Lindsey M. Campbell | The Guest Editor’s Note and The Architecture of Enough by Laura Carfang | Neither Cat Nor Collie by Jessica Doig | More Than What You See on My CV by Alison Cusmano | Naked in Bed by Cathy de la Cruz | Portrait of a Good Girl by Naomi French | How Precious Is My Time? by Alicia Gehring | New Body, New Clothes by Bridget Godwin | What Cancer Cost Me That I Didn’t Expect by Kelly Gunn | It Was Training by Bess Hagans | Growth by Cheri Henderson | Ramblings of a Dying Woman by Lauren Huffmaster | Inspire Me or Die for Me by Alannah Jayne | The Price of Self-Worth by Teckla King-O’Connor | Give Away Your Ice Cream by Kristina Kulin | Worthwhile by Grace Murphy | strange by Laura Murray | Aligned and Enough by Lisa Orr | Mind Control by Dawn Rosiello | Life’s Crumbs by Dr. Alicia San Miguel, PhD | Is it Worth It? by Cara Nash Snyder
WORTH, Apr / May 2026 (Vol 11, No. 2)
This new issue of Wildfire showcases stories about navigating money, employment, identity, and value in the aftermath of breast cancer. From money and career to purpose and worthiness.
We asked our writers to tell us the truth of what cancer costs — financially, emotionally, spiritually — to rebuild a life. And tell us where they found their own definition of worth along the way.
Within this issue, you will find 22 writers representing these diagnosis details:
- Diagnosis ages: 20s, 30s, and 40s
- Breast cancer types: DCIS, IDC, and Inflammatory
- Initial Stages: 0 - IV
- Receptors: ER/PR+, HER2+, TNBC, and Triple Positive
- Single & multiple diagnoses
Contributors:
Guest Editor Laura Carfang, Founder & CEO of SurvivingBreastCancer.org
Cover Star Laura Carfang
Hitting on a Male Nurse While on Drugs by Lindsey M. Campbell | The Guest Editor’s Note and The Architecture of Enough by Laura Carfang | Neither Cat Nor Collie by Jessica Doig | More Than What You See on My CV by Alison Cusmano | Naked in Bed by Cathy de la Cruz | Portrait of a Good Girl by Naomi French | How Precious Is My Time? by Alicia Gehring | New Body, New Clothes by Bridget Godwin | What Cancer Cost Me That I Didn’t Expect by Kelly Gunn | It Was Training by Bess Hagans | Growth by Cheri Henderson | Ramblings of a Dying Woman by Lauren Huffmaster | Inspire Me or Die for Me by Alannah Jayne | The Price of Self-Worth by Teckla King-O’Connor | Give Away Your Ice Cream by Kristina Kulin | Worthwhile by Grace Murphy | strange by Laura Murray | Aligned and Enough by Lisa Orr | Mind Control by Dawn Rosiello | Life’s Crumbs by Dr. Alicia San Miguel, PhD | Is it Worth It? by Cara Nash Snyder
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