Ellen Andrews has spent most of her career as a neurologist in private practice in North Carolina.  She has taught in the psychiatry departments of the University of Vermont and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Kathleen Antony is a third-year medical student at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. 

Barbara Brooks is a physical therapist at the University of North Carolina Hospitals and lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Her poems have appeared in the Green Hills Literary Lantern, Charlotte Poetry Review, The River's Edge, and Kerf. Her first chapbook is The Catbird Sang (Finishing Line Press, 2005).

Daniel Bryant is an internist who practices in Portland, Maine. His fiction has been published in Bellevue Literary Review and Nimrod, and his poetry and essays hve appeared in a variety of literary and medical magazines. He created a physician–writer website that is now based at New York University’s Ehrman Medical Library, called the Bryant Collection: Roster of Physician Writers.

John Thomas Clark, who has an MA in Creative Writing, is a retired New York City teacher with a progressive neuromuscular disease who has served as a good-will ambassador for MDA in many capacities. His poetry has appeared or will be published in The Recorder: Journal of the American-Irish Society, Mediphors, Celtic Fringe, Exit 13, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, Lachryma, Hidden Oak, The Boston Literary Magazine, Contemporary Rhyme, and Mobius.

Les Cohen has practiced and taught internal medicine for many years in Boston. His short stories have been published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Archives of Internal Medicine, JAMA, and in 2000, 2001, and 2005 he won the Journal of General Internal Medicine's Creative Writing Award for Prose.

Noreen Crain, is assistant professor of pediatrics and anesthesiology and medical director of pediatric palliative care at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Thomas Crawford Gibbs is an obstetrician–gynecologist in private practice and is on the teaching staff at Orlando Regional Medical Center and Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies in Florida.  Among his publications is “The Bruising” published in The Healing Muse: A Journal of Literary and Visual Arts (Center for Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Fall 2006).

Arthur Ginsberg is a neurologist and poet in Seattle. He has published in many poetry and medical journals. His work appears in the anthology Blood and Bone (University of Iowa Press) and his book Walking the Panther (Northwoods Press, 1984). He was awarded the William Stafford prize in 2003 by the Washington Poets Association.

Phillip Gordon is a neonatologist and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia. He has published two books: the memoir Cherubs in the Land of Lucifer (2006) and The Doom of St. Amalie (2007), a murder mystery set in the 14th century. 

Amy Haddad is a nurse who teaches ethics at Creighton University where she is Director of the Center for Health Policy and Ethics. Her poetry and short stories have been published in the American Journal of Nursing, Reflections, Journal of General Internal Medicine, Journal of Medical Humanities, Touch, Bellevue Literary Review, and Janus Head and in the anthologies Between the Heartbeats (1995), The Arduous Touch: Women's Voices in Health Care (1999), Intensive Care (2003), and The Poetry of Nursing: Poems and Commentaries of Leading Nurse–Poets (2005).

Jim Hagan is a Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of Virginia. He has had a number of exhibits of his sculpture and his graphic art.

Jonathan Han is a physician at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and teaches in the St. Margaret Family Practice residency program, New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Many years ago he spent a summer in a community health outpost in rural Liberia with Operation Crossroads Africa.

Bruce Hillman is professor of radiology at the University of Virginia and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. He writes short fiction about physician training and practice.

Donald Innes is a pathologist and associate dean for curriculum at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, Virginia. He grew up in the Berkshire Hills of Northwestern Connecticut and has long been interested in the musical and visual arts. 

Aimee Loiselle worked as a certified nurse’s aide during high school and college. She completed a bachelor’s degree and teacher certification program at Dartmouth College and now lives in Minnesota. Her stories have appeared in Square Lake and Out of Line. In 2005, she was a fiction finalist for The Loft Mentor Series.

John Manesis, a retired physician, has had his poetry appear in many literary publications, including  Zone 3, Measure, Wisconsin Review, North Dakota Quarterly and Footwork: Paterson Literary Review. His first book of poetry was With All My Breath (Cosmos Publishing Company, 2003).

Susan O'Doherty is a writer, clinical psychologist, and author of Getting Unstuck without Coming Unglued: A Woman's Guide to Unblocking Creativity (Seal Press, 2007).  Her work has appeared in Eureka Literary Magazine, Northwest Review, Apalachee Review, Ballyhoo Stories, Eclectica, Reflection’s Edge, VerbSap, Literary Mama, Word Riot, Style & Sense, and the anthologies About What Was Lost: Twenty Writers on Miscarriage, Healing, and Hope  (Penguin, 2007), It’s a Boy! (Seal Press, 2005), The Best of Carve, Volume VI, and Familiar (The People's Press, 2005).  A new story is scheduled to appear in Sex for America, edited by Stephen Elliott.

Christine Parkhurst teaches health communication courses at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, where all students major in the health sciences (such as pharmacy, nursing, pre-medical, physician assistant). Dedication: "In memory of Monica, the dark twin. May our students learn to know their patients as people."

Peter Pereira is as a family physician at High Point Community Clinic in West Seattle, where he takes care of an urban under-served population of refugees, immigrants, housing project residents, young families, and elderly. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, The Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, and JAMA and will be included in the forthcoming in the 2007 Best American Poetry. He has spoken on poetry and medicine at medical schools across the country, including Duke University, Des Moines University, and the University of Washington. His books include The Lost Twin (Grey Spider, 2000), Saying the World (Copper Canyon, 2003), and What’s Written on the Body (Copper Canyon, 2007).

Noah Raizman, a resident in orthopaedic surgery in Washington, DC, has an MFA from Columbia University. His poems have been published in Barrow Street, Western Humanities Review, JAMA and anthologized in Body Language: Poems of the Medical Training Experience; he is also a frequent contributor to The Lancet.

Dudley Rochester was head of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
(1976–1993) at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, Virginia.  Since retiring, he has been a member of the Charlottesville Camera Club since 1995 and was its president in 2005.  He has participated in several photography workshops and taught digital photography for the JILL program.

Renée Rossi, an otolaryngologist (ENT physician), will complete an MFA in Creative Writing (poetry) at Vermont College in July 2007. Her work has appeared in Sojourn, Ilya's Honey, TEX! and the anthology Body Language. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2007.

Michael Salcman is a physician, brain scientist, and essayist on the visual arts. He was chair of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland, chief of neurosurgery at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, and president of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. Recent poems have appeared or will soon be published in the Ontario Review, Harvard Review, Raritan, River Styx, Notre Dame Review, and New York Quarterly. His fourth chapbook, Stones In Our Pockets (Parallel Press, University of Wisconsin–Madison), and first collection, The Clock Made of Confetti (Orchises, Washington, DC), will appear in 2007. 

Emily Transue is a general internist at the Polyclinic and a clinical assistant professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.  She published the memoir On Call: A Doctor’s Days and Nights in Residency, and her second book, Patient to Patient, will be published in 2008.

John Voss is a general internist and associate professor of medicine at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. His last one-man show, "Light of the Desert Southwest," was held at Montgomery College in 2004.

Kenneth Weinberg is an emergency physician in a community hospital in the New York City suburbs and an instructor in The Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. In addition to photography, he writes stories, fiction and non-fiction, that have been published and broadcast on radio.

Susan Lloyd Yolen, who holds an MA in Library Science, is vice president for public affairs and communication of Planned Parenthood of Connecticut in New Haven, Connecticut.

Larry Zaroff practiced for 29 years as a cardiac surgeon. He then spent 10 years mountain climbing before completing a PhD at Stanford University, where he is now a senior research scholar in the Center for Biomedical Ethics and teaches courses in medical humanities. He also writes for the science section of the New York Times.