ABSTRACT
Judy Schaefer, RNC, MA is editor of the first autobiographical/ biographical volume about nurse-poets, The Poetry of Nursing (Kent State University Press, 2006), and a pioneering co-editor, with Cortney Davis, of the fi rst international anthology of creative writing by nurses, Between the Heartbeats (University of Iowa Press, 1995), followed by Intensive Care (University of Iowa Press, 2003), the second anthology by Davis and Schaefer. She is the author of a collection of poetry, Harvesting the Dew (Vista, 1997). Judy has lectured for the Pennsylvania State University and is a member of The Kienle Center, Penn State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, PA.
