ABOUT THE AUTHORMy name is Jack Toor. I am a senior at the University of Michigan majoring in biochemistry with a minor in writing. I will graduate this April (2022). I spend most of my free time swimming, biking, and running with my friends on the UM Club Triathlon Team.
As a writer, I am fascinated with how people make sense of this world we are thrown into. Short stories and evidenced-based, accessible scientific writing are my two favorite genres to create in. In the future, I hope to use my writing to empower members of my community through humanistic medicine. I think patients, physicians, and researchers could all benefit from the reminders of our common bond that the humanities engender. ABOUT THE STORYIn Discovery of a Violet on an Autumn Day, Ada is a child struggling with the loss of her father who finds herself cast into an argument between children on the playground that strikes a much deeper chord than she anticipated.
The story is heavily influenced by Tractatus-Logico Philosophicus and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein more broadly. The ideas of Bertrand Russell and Thomas Aquinas also influenced my writing in this project. |