Carol Donley is an alumna of Mt. Holyoke College (religion), Hiram College (biology), Kent State University (English), and Case Western Reserve (biomedical ethics). She was the Andrews Professor of Biomedical Humanities at Hiram College, where she co-founded and directed the Center for Literature, Medicine and Biomedical Humanities with Martin Kohn. With Dr. Kohn, she led two National Endowment for the Humanities Institutes on Humanities and Medicine, and led 15 summer seminars on biomedical humanities for health care professionals and humanities scholars. From 1992-2009 she co-edited with Martin Kohn 19 books in the Literature and Medicine series at Kent State University Press. Martin and Carol worked together for 25 years. She also serves as an editor and contributor to the NYU Literature, Arts and Medicine Database. In retirement, she is taking lessons in watercolor, serving on the Ohio Humanities Council, and teaching part time.
Martin Kohn is Director of Medical Humanities in the Department of Bioethics, Cleveland Clinic, as well as for the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. He previously directed the Human Values in Medicine program at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM) during which time he co-founded the Center for Literature, Medicine and Biomedical Humanities with Carol Donley of Hiram College. He and Dr. Donley are founding editors of the Literature and Medicine series at Kent State University Press that has published 19 volumes. He also serves as an editor and contributor to the NYU Literature, Arts and Medicine Database. His research interests are in the pedagogical aspects of the medical humanities and in developing performance pieces that engage health care professionals and the public they serve in dialogue about the nature and future of health care. His poetry has appeared in numerous print and electronic journals.