Bio

L. M. Asta has published fiction in Zone 5, The Battered Suitcase, Inkwell, Philadelphia Stories, and Schuylkill, and her essays have have appeared in Hippocrates and the Journal of the American Medical Association. She is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and Temple University School of Medicine. She did her residency at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. She writes and practices in Northern California.

Short Stories

• “Race Track.” Zone 3. 28(1) 2013.
• “Getting Out.” Philadelphia Stories. Winter 2012-2013.
• “The Bulb.” The Battered Suitcase. Autumn 2010.
• “Small Trade Tubes.” Inkwell.
• “Transplant.” Philadelphia Stories. Winter 2008-2009.
• “Trapped.” Schuylkill.

Essays

• “Near Drowning.” Hippocrates. December 2000. 14(12): 23-24.
• “Chronicles of Little Big Feet.” San Jose Mercury News. October 21, 1999, p. 15E.
• “Mikey.” Journal of the American Medical Association. 282(11): 1019 (1999).
• “My Mother, the Patient.” Hippocrates. 12(8): 24-25. (1998).
• “Refuge from the Emergency Room.” Hippocrates. 12(4): 26-27 (1998).
• “A Time for Letting Go.” Hippocrates. 11(12): 32-33 (1997).
• “Remembering Allison.” Hippocrates. 11(4): 24-29 (1997).
• “As Bad As It Gets.” Hippocrates. 8(4): 24-25 (1994).