Essays & Selected Work
Writing
New dispatches from the Substack newsletter, an essay to read here, and selected published fiction — much of it collected in the two books on the Books page.
Dispatches from Detroit
From the Substack
Dr. Kroneman publishes regularly on medicine, Detroit, and the writing life.
- NURSES ARE IN HIGH DEMAND BUT QUIT IN DROVESOctober 22, 2026
- More on the Importance of Detroit HeroicOctober 18, 2026
- If It Weren’t For The Nurses We’d All Be Riding HearsesOctober 14, 2026
- 1968 Wrote My Novel Detroit HeroicOctober 13, 2026
- Detroit Heroic Released -Why the Title Detroit Heroic???September 29, 2026
- Detroit Heroic Launches in Detroit-Schuler BookstoreSeptember 26, 2026
Essays
- Why the Title Detroit Heroic?
On complicity, moral injury, and the physicians who take the risk anyway.
- A Wonderful Night
A true story from a life in Detroit medicine.
Selected Stories
- A Show of Hands
Bewildering Stories
- The Meteorologist
New Pop Lit
- Fight Night
Winner — Winning Writers Sports Fiction & Essay Contest
Honors
- “The Recidivist” — winner, Writer's Digest Short Story Competition
- “A Battlefield Decision” — 2010 Pushcart Prize nomination
- “Detroit Golden Gloves” — Editor's Choice, Inscape
Additional work has appeared in Forge, Hawai’i Pacific Review, The Healing Muse, The Helix, Left Curve, Quiddity International Literary Journal, RiverSedge, and Gemini Magazine.