Judy Schaefer is a lecturer for Pennsylvania State University and a member of the Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine at the Penn State University College of Medicine. The author of the poetry collection Harvesting the Dew, she has been published in numerous magazines and journals, including Academic Medicine, Literature and Medicine, and the American Journal of Nursing. Together, Cortney Davis and Schaefer are the co-editors of Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses (Iowa 1995), the first anthology of creative writing by nurses.