Veneta Masson, RN, MA
Veneta Masson, R.N., M.A. Washington, D.C. author of the poetry collection, Rehab at the Florida Avenue Grill. Her most recent collection of poems is titled, Clinician’s Guide to the Soul. Workshop: “Clinician’s Guide to Invisible Wounds: Seeing Inside Our Patients and Ourselves”
A nurse in practice for thirty-five years, twenty of them in primary health care, Veneta Masson was a founder, director and, for most of two decades, family nurse practitioner in a small, mom-and-pop clinic providing office and home care to an inner-city neighborhood in Washington, D.C. Two books came out of that experience: Ninth Street Notebook—Voice of a Nurse in the City contains short pieces about big issues in health care from her vantage point on the front lines of health care. Rehab at the Florida Avenue Grill is a poetry collection featuring narrative poems about events and people whose lives changed hers.
Though no longer in practice, Veneta continues to explore healing art. Her most recent poetry collection, Clinician’s Guide to the Soul, was published in 2008. She also works with medical and nursing students taking courses in health care ethics at Georgetown University.
Veneta Masson was interviewed in our second edition of Synapse, Literature & Medicine’s e-zine. You can read it here.