Kathleen Quigley

Kathleen Quigley is a writer, massage therapist, and marathon runner. She pursued an MFA at Columbia College, Chicago, and took a long hiatus to raise her son. She has published fiction and nonfiction in Hairtrigger, BowWow, and Wisconsin People & Ideas. She lives in Wisconsin with her two crazy dogs and is writing a memoir about cancer and facing mortality with humor and longing.
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  • What Used to Be

    The Magazine
    Most of the time I can avoid looking at my left breast — or whatever it’s called now — but when I do, I see the little red capillaries above and below the seven-inch scar snaking from my sternum up into my armpit.
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