Jamie Anderson is a Circulation Assistant at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library of the University of Virginia.  She is originally from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and has been working at UVa since October 2006. The "Med School Snowmen" shown in her photograph were created by UVA medical students Peter Oliver, Daniel Murray, Matt Hubbard, Chris Thom, and Nathan Peterson.

Bobbye Cohen holds a MSN from the University of Virginia and practices in the Department of Radiology at the University of Virginia Medical Center.  Hospital Drive holds a special meaning for her because for 12 years her office was in McKim Hall, overlooking Hospital Drive.  Bobbye captured the picture of the old woman in front of the Rotunda in the late 1970s.

Julie Connelly is a general internist, geriatrician, and professor of medicine at the University Virginia School of Medicine.  She has been a member of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities (formerly the Program of Humanities in Medicine) for many years where she teaches literature and medicine, mindfulness in medicine, and aspects of the patient–physician relationship and enjoys writing personal reflections about the practice of medicine.

Raymond J. Cormier teaches in the Department of English and Modern Languages at Longwood University, Farmville, Virginia, where he also serves as "First Gent."  The photo was taken during a celebration of the life of the late Joseph Boardman, spouse of Dr. Sharon Hostler, interim dean of the UVA School of Medicine, and shows her young grandson Alan.

Mary Jane Gore works in the public relations division of the University of Virginia Health System. Her work has appeared in many publications, and she has written for a syndicated television show.  “The New Job” is the first fiction she has set in the world of medicine.

Barry M. Farr, a physician, is a professor emeritus at the University of Virginia, who retired as the William S. Jordan Jr. Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology in 2004.  He wrote the poem “Unk” about his great uncle.

Eugene A. Foster was a professor of pathology at UVA from 1959 to 1976 and at Tufts University School of Medicine from 1976 to 1990.  Until now his most notable extracurricular achievement has been the DNA study that increased the probability that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one of Sally Hemings’ children. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Adam Halbur worked briefly as a medical records clerk and currently teaches English as a second language in Japan.  His work has appeared most recently in The Fourth River, Dunes Review, and the anthology Never Before:  Poems about First Experiences (Four Way Books, 2005).

Bradley E. Haws is a senior associate dean and chief financial officer of the University of Virginia School of Medicine.  His photography is primarily of travel, much of it from regular visits to the Arizona–Utah region. The image "Morning Mist" was taken from a hot air balloon while flying over central Virginia.

Elizabeth Meade Howard of Charlottesville, Virginia, is finishing her book "Aging Famously: Role Models for the Rest of Our Lives."  She has contributed articles on health, women, and families to numerous national publications. A former lecturer in the University of Virginia English Department, she also produces documentaries, two of which focused on women who lived to be over 100 years old.

Dory Hulse, Director of Communications for the University of Virginia School of Nursing, holds a degree in English from Oakland University. Her PR/marketing-communications experience of more than 25 years has spanned clients from health care providers to international aviation trade show organizers. She served as a Rotarian photojournalist for a surgical mission to Patagonia in 2001.

Kendra Kopelke is co-editor of Passager, a literary journal for new older writers.  She is author of three books of poems and directs the MFA program in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts at the University of Baltimore.

Ann Neuser Lederer, a practicing R.N. for nearly three decades, has published poems and creative nonfiction in such journals as Wind, Brevit, Diagram, and Cross Connect.  Her chapbooks "The Undifferentiated" and"Weaning the Babies" are available from Pudding House.  Samples and links can be found on her website at http://home.windstream.net/lederer/ann.

Judy Longley, the author of four books of poetry, has appeared in Paris Review, Poetry, Western Humanities Review, and The Southern Review among others.  Poetry editor of Iris:  A Journal for Women for five years, she now edits for Tough Times Companion, published by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

Holly Martin is a fourth-year medical student at College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York.  She took the photograph “El Misti at Sunset” after walking home from Hospital Goyoneche in Arequipa, Peru, where she worked in the Pediatric Department during a research year abroad. 

David B. Morris was for many years a professor of English literature at the University of Iowa, before becoming an independent scholar and writer PhD. Now, having freshly retired after five years at the University of Virginia as a University, he is working into a new role as primary caregiver for Ruth, his wife, as she deals with a very serious disease.  He is writing the book “Eros and Illness: A Survival Kit” for the University of California Press.

Gregory Nye is a primary care physician for the Veterans Administration in Massachusetts and lives on Cape Cod.  

Harrison O’Connor is a rancher in central Montana.  He has painted thirteen paintings; the tenth, published here, depicts a cowboy bar in Great Falls called the Sip'n Dip. The "mermaids" depicted behind the bar are swimmers in the neighboring swimming pool, visible through a glass wall behind the bar. 

Kristen Rembold’s poems have recently appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Green Mountains Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Appalachia.   Her novel Felicity was published by Mid-List Press.  She is a 2006 graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, Asheville, North Carolina.

Robert Reynolds is professor and vice chair of public health sciences, professor of internal medicine, and former vice provost for health sciences and vice president for information technology at the University of Virginia. He will retire from the university in Summer 2008 after 20 years on the faculty and administration.

Carolyn Roy-Bornstein is a pediatrician in private practice in Massachusetts.  Her fiction has been published in The Charles River Review, and she won third place in the 2005 Writers Digest Short Short Story Competition from a field of almost 8,000 entries.

Johanna Shapiro earned a Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University and is a professor in the Department of Family Medicine at University of California, Irvine School of Medicine and director of the Program in Medical Humanities & Arts for the school.  She is feature editor of a regular column “Uses of Literature and Arts in Medical Education” in the journal Family Medicine, poetry editor of Families, Systems, & Health, and poetry co-editor for the e-magazine Pulse.  Now a grandma herself, she has special appreciation for her own grandfather.

Jayme Stokes is a third year General Surgery resident at the University of Virginia. His primary research interests are pancreatic and other gastrointestinal cancers. He enjoys sailing and SCUBA diving with his wife, Laura.

Stan K. Sujka is a physician in private practice with Orlando Urology Associates and is on staff of the Orlando Regional Healthcare System, MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, and Florida Hospital Orlando, all in Orlando, Florida.  His stories have appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul Celebrates Teachers (Health Communications, Inc., 2003), and Wisdom of the Ages:  Stories form Grandparents and about Grandparents that Teach Lessons about Life (Thornton Publishing, 2003), Central Florida Physician Magazine, Florida Medical Association Quarterly Magazine, and the Orlando Sentinel.

Eleanor Ross Taylor has published five books of poetry, the most recent Late Leisure (2000), preceded by Wilderness of Ladies (1960), Welcome Eumenides (1972), New and Selected Poems (1983), and Days Going, Days Coming Back (1992).  She has published in Cape Rock, Ploughshares, Yale Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and the New Yorker.   A book of criticism about her work, The Lighthouse Keeper: Essays on the Poetry of Eleanor Ross Taylor by Jean Valetine, was published in 2001.   She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Ross Taylor has recently published poems in Virginia Quarterly Review, Seneca
Review, Poet Lore, Blackbird, and other small magazines and stories in
Kiss the Sky: Fiction & Poetry Starring Jimi Hendrix and the Texas Review.  He lives in Falls Church, Virginia, with his wife and daughter.