Lindsay Rutherford

Lindsay Rutherford is a writer and physical therapist located on the ancestral land of the Coast Salish people in the northwest corner of Washington state. She has a BA in comparative sociology from the University of Puget Sound, a MA in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania, and a doctorate of physical therapy from Temple University. She is currently pursing her MFA in creative nonfiction at Bay Path University. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Cutleaf, Multiplicity, Cleaver, Literary Mama and elsewhere, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

She has been practicing physical therapy for fifteen years, primarily in acute care with a special interest in ICU rehab. She is a board-certified geriatric clinical specialist and holds graduate certificates in palliative care from the University of Washington and narrative medicine from Columbia University.

Her work as a writer, PT, and human explores themes of belonging, care, crisis, memory, selfhood, connection, and witness, and is heavily informed by her relationship with the more-than-human world. When she’s not working or writing, she can be found hiking slowly up Pacific Northwest mountain trails, looking and listening for birds in the woods and at the shoreline, adventuring with her husband and two teenagers, or snuggling with her dog and a good book.