MK Czerwiec

MK Czerwiec (pronounced sir-wick) is a Senior Fellow of the George Washington School of Nursing Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement and the Artist-in-Residence at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. She has a BA in English & Philosophy from Loyola University of Chicago, a BSN in nursing from Rush University, and an MA in Medical Humanities and Bioethics from Northwestern University. Her clinical nursing experience is in HIV/AIDS care and hospice care. MK has been making comics under the pseudonym Comic Nurse since 2000. With UK physician Ian Williams, she co-runs Graphic Medicine, a website devoted to the intersection of comics and health.

Her first graphic memoir, Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 (Penn State University Press, 2017), is believed to be the first graphic memoir created by a nurse. She is also a co-author of the Eisner Award-nominated Graphic Medicine Manifesto (Penn State University Press, 2015), which maps the field of Graphic Medicine.


Articles by MK Czerwiec

Thursday November 2

Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371

When it became clear that Stephen was taking his last breaths, his friends and family gathered close, and like a chorus, sent him on his way. Thank you, Stephen!…