Elise Rosenhaupt
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Elise Rosenhaupt

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Elise Rosenhaupt's experience with injuries and other insults to the brain is both wide and deep. Her father died nine years after falling off his bicycle onto his head; she spent weeks with him immediately after his 1976 accident. She was beside her husband during his 1995 episode of transient global amnesia. Her son, a medic, took charge when, in 1998, she fell and fractured her skull. Two months later, that son, a Harvard undergraduate, was hit by a car and thrown 150 feet, suffering traumatic brain injury. She was with him throughout his weeks at the acute care hospital and the rehabilitation facility in Massachusetts, and during his months of recovery and rehabilitation at home in New Mexico. She cared for her mother, who suffered from Parkinsonism, a neurological syndrome. Rosenhaupt recorded her book, Climbing Back: A Family's Journey through Brain Injury, in Santa Fe with a young local recording engineer, Kabby Kabakoff. Her 6 hour recording is available through Audible.com, iTunes, and Amazon. The author has lived in New Mexico since 1969. She edits and writes on behalf of environmental groups and progressive initiatives and candidates. She has taught American and English literature and creative writing, and edited poetry, fiction, and non-fiction on a freelance basis. She edited photographer Eliot Porter’s essays and his book, Antarctica (E.P. Dutton, 1978). A graduate of Radcliffe College, she was poetry editor of Harvard’s oldest literary magazine, The Harvard Advocate. She studied at Harvard with poets Robert Fitzgerald and Theodore Morrison and writers Roger Rosenblatt and Carter Wilson. She lives in Santa Fe with her husband. Their son, daughter, son-in-law, and grandson all live nearby.
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