Lisa Gruenberg is a physician working in Boston. A Beautiful Day is excerpted from her memoir, Searching for Mia, which is currently being considered for publication. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Lesley University’s Low Residency Program in 2007. Her essays have been published in The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine and Vital Signs. Her short story, Keiskamma, won the 2012 Massachusetts Cultural Counsel Artist’s Fellowship. She is expanding this story, about an American doctor working and raising a family in South Africa, into novella form.