Maria Smilios is spending 2020 writing about nurses. She is featuring a nurse a week throughout this year celebrating the untold stories of nurses who have had been hidden or forgotten over the years. This project grew out of a book that Maria wrote called Black Angels, the untold story of the African-American Nurses who helped cure Tuberculosis. It is an Oprah Book with a forthcoming publication date.
The Black Angels is a story of heroism and achievement that hasn’t been told and I felt it needed to be shared.” — Oprah Winfrey
In celebration of 2020 The Year of the Nurse and Midwife, Maria introduces the readers of her blog to nurses whose stories must be shared.
I am honored that we can celebrate these unsung heroines on this blog as well.
Maude E. Callen: The Angel of Hell Hole
Sharing Maria’s bio from her website: https://www.mariasmilios.com/about/
A New York City native, Maria has a Masters of Arts from Boston University in Religion & Literature where she was a Henry Luce Scholar and a Presidential Scholar and where she taught Essay & Research writing in the university’s writing program.
In 2007, she left Boston and moved back to New York City to teach at an all-girls high school. There she created and ran an intensive summer writing program for teens. Maria also spent five years at Springer Science & Media as Development Editor in the Biomedical Sciences.
In the past, Maria has written for Narratively, The Guardian, The Rumpus, Dame Magazine, The Jewish Daily Forward among others.
