Saundra Murray Nettles is an associate professor and scholar of human development at the University of Maryland.  She is also a poet. Her just-published memoir is an intimate account of her battle with an undiagnosed brain tumor — and her survival of the emergency surgery that finally removed it. Most of all, it is an inspiring story of community and of one woman’s ability to "bounce back." She introduces the book with a poem that ends with the line "Fate requests the honor of your presence." From the Series:The Writer's Tale