History of the journal modified from The Polyphony article.
Survive and Thrive was born after its founder, Rex Veeder, survived a sudden cardiac arrest (fatal about 95 percent of the time) in 2007. Veeder was a Coleridge scholar, writing teacher, and administrator at St Cloud State University, Minnesota; after the cardiac arrests (he survived multiple), he redirected his energies toward the medical humanities and narrative medicine. Powered by a left-ventricular assist device (LVAD), which moved his blood when his heart no longer could, Veeder built conferences bringing musicians, artists, and theater professionals into conversation with survivors, providers, and humanities scholars. From those conferences, he built a journal.
Rex has passed on, but the journal remains and manifests the same spirit as the conferences. We publish scholarly articles on the sociology of medicine, the health humanities, health communication, and related areas. We publish critical reflections and creative nonfiction; we publish poetry. We publish works by scholars, by caregivers, by medical providers, by advocates, and by survivors. In every issue of the journal, we continue to host the kinds of conversations Veeder picked up in the conferences. Only now, instead of doing so only in St Cloud, Minnesota, we do so worldwide.
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