Rondalyn WhitneyRondalyn Varney Whitney is a poet, writer, occupational therapist, and researcher. Her writing narrates the lived experience of defiant healing. She writes across genres, from scholarly journals to professional texts and creativeworks. Her poem "Amazng Grace" appears in the anthology The Healer's Burden: Stories and Poems of Professional Grief, and her essays "Are You the Wife? Narrating a Week of Loss" in Intima and "Time is a Fluid" in The ExaminedLife Journal.She retired after over twenty years in academia. Formerly from Appalachia, she now lives in Western Massachusetts, where she enjoys the sound of frogs, watching the watchful red-tailed hawk, and sitting by the firepit while writingin her journal and sipping Heaven's Door Bourbon, chilled by one orb of ice. Read More Read Less