Ellen Aronofsky Cole is the author of Notes from the Dry Country (Mayapple Press, 2019), and the chapbook Prognosis (Finishing Line Press, 2011). Her poems have appeared in The Bellevue Literary Review, Little Patuxent Review, Potomac Review, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, and The Washington Post Magazine. Her article “My Life as a (Fake) Patient,” was published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Cole lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with her husband Brian and her parrot, Haiku.