Being Single, with Cancer

Tracy Maxwell is the author of the popular blog ““A Single Cell.”” She majored in journalism at Western Kentucky University, thinking she would be a newspaper reporter, but spent only one summer at a newspaper in Arkansas and realized that she hated it. She went back to school to get a MS in Communications from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Writing has, however, remained the central focus of her life and career. She continued as a freelance writer and had her work has been published in a number of publications including the sorority magazine Greek Life with a circulation of 80,000, and about a dozen pieces for Perspectives, the quarterly magazine of the Association of Fraternity and Sorority Advisors. Her story has been published on numerous cancer-related sites including: The Cheryl Shackelford Foundation, The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, The HERA Women’s Cancer Foundation, LifeSpark Cancer Resources, i2y - The I’m Too Young for This Foundation and the 15-40 Connection. Her blog, ““A Single Cell”“, was published as a monthly column on Divine Caroline for nearly five years. It has been the most important project of her life, and one she enjoyed tremendously. Additionally, he has been featured in pieces on the Denver NBC affiliate about single cancer survivors, on the Stupid Cancer Radio Show twice and in several magazines - CURE, Denver Woman and Women & Cancer.