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Cancer Created Introvert

About the Substack

Essays about my experience with a rare type of cancer called MDS, a subsequent stem cell transplant, and how different I am on the other side.

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Weekly public posts

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Full archive
Live events - Virtual Creativity Retreats
Short stories and other fiction

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About Karen Richards

Artist, writer, survivor, and newly proclaimed introvert.

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