Kathleen English Cadmus is a mental health nurse practitioner who earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Ashland (Ohio) University. As a bereaved parent of a son and an adoptive parent of a daughter with bipolar disorder, Kathleen has been active in both the adoption communities and the mental health arenas. She has had her writing published in local newspapers, adoption newsletters, and the nursing anthology Learning to Heal (Kent State University Press, 2018). Kathleen lives in Columbus, Ohio, and is a mother to five children and grandmother to seven.