Marilyn Kallet, Knoxville Poet Laureate, is the author of 18 books, including How Our Bodies Learned. She has performed her poems on campuses and in theaters across the United States as well as in France and Poland, as a guest of the U.S. Embassy’s “America Presents” program. Her poetry is forthcoming in New Voices, an anthology of contemporary voices on antisemitism, and 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium.

Donna Doyle is a poet and photographer whose work has appeared in literary and medical journals. She is an adjunct writing instructor at the Cancer Support Community of East Tennessee and has taught wellness and reflective writing classes to medical students, physicians, nurses, hospital chaplains, and support groups.