For close to three years Glancy suffered from a debilitating illness. Despite consulting with countless health practitioners and subjecting herself to innumerable tests - CT scans, EEGs, EKGs, colonoscopies and much more - the diagnosis proved elusive and her illness progressed. Listen and discover how she finally solved the mystery and returned to health. Gabrielle Glancy is an award-winning poet and translator whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review among other publications. She’s also a top expert in getting high school students into college. She is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of The Art of the College Essay (Oneiric Press 2014), Best College Essays 2014 (editor) (Oneiric Press 2014) and I’m Already Disturbed Please Come In: Parasites, Social Media and Other Planetary Disturbances (A Memoir, of Sorts) (Oneiric Press 2014)

Interview Date: 3/26/2015    Tags: Gabrielle Glancy, Mysterious illness, parasites, Facebook, bronchitis, Prednisone, stool test, internet, computers, Doctor J, panic attack, medical tests, diseases, computers, mustard plaster, Western medicine, line between consciousness and unconsciousness, vulnerable, Michael Pollan, germs, Health & Healing, Personal Transformation