Jeanne Bryner is the author of several collections of poetry, one book of short stories, and a play. Her poetry collection Smoke received an American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award, and No Matter How Many Windows won the Working Class Studies Association Tillie Olsen Award. Bryner has received writing fellowships from Bucknell University, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Vermont Studio Center.

Cortney Davis is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Taking Care of Time, winner of the Wheel- barrow Poetry Prize. Her nonfiction publications include The Heart’s Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing and When the Nurse Becomes a Patient: A Story in Words and Images (Kent State University Press, 2009 and 2015). With Judy Schaefer, she is coeditor of the award-winning Between the Heartbeats and Intensive Care. Davis’s honors include an NEA Poetry Fellowship and four Book of the Year awards from the American Journal of Nursing.