Grace Segran
Cognoscenti contributor
Grace Segran is a former journalist and global nomad who lives in Boston. Her personal essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Smart Set, Pangyrus, The Common, Brevity Blog and elsewhere.
Recently published
'I have loved and am loved': I am at peace
Grace Segran has been writing about her terminal cancer diagnosis for Cognoscenti since the end of 2021. In this piece, produced for the radio, Grace shares how she's choosing to...
Cancer treatment took my mojo. Hospice gave it back
The window will close at some point, but hospice care has given me my life back, for now, writes Grace Segran.
'Night is now falling': This is what dying looks like
About a year after her cancer diagnosis, Grace Segran decided to stop treating the disease. Her hope is to get back to the business of living -- for at a...
'Keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever': A grandmother wonders how to say goodbye
Writer Grace Segran was diagnosed earlier this year with incurable breast cancer. Her time with her granddaughter is short.