Jeanne Bryner�s family was part of Appalachia�s outmigration, and she considers living close to a dairy farm these many years a blessing. A graduate of Trumbull Memorial Hospital�s School of Nursing and Kent State University�s Honors College, she has received awards for community service, nursing and writing. She worked as a staff nurse in pediatrics, Med-Surg, ICU, ER, Immediate Care, Periop-Pool, the IV team and Vlad Pediatrics where babies and children arrived like field flowers.Her prose and poetry appear in national and international journals, anthologies and textbooks, but working with her students, helping them find their voice has greatly enriched her life and writing. To facilitate the healing power of language, Jeanne teaches writing workshops in cancer support groups, nursing homes, schools and universities. Her books include Breathless, Blind Horse: Poems, Eclipse: Stories, Tenderly Lift Me: Nurses Honored, Celebrated and Remembered, The Wedding of Miss Meredith Mouse, No Matter How Many Windows (2011 Tillie Olsen Award from the Working Class Studies Association, ) Smoke: Poems (2012 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award, ) and Early Farming Woman. Jeanne�s poetry has been adapted for the stage and performed in Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, New York, Texas, Pennsylvania and Edinburgh, Scotland. Her new play, Foxglove Canyon, was first performed in Akron at Summa Healthcare�s Humanities conference under the direction of Russell Zampino. With the support of Hiram College�s Center for Literature, Medicine and Biomedical Humanities, her nursing poetry has been adapted and performed by Verb Ballets, Cleveland, Ohio. She has received writing fellowships from Bucknell University, the Ohio Arts Council (1997, 2007) and Vermont Studio Center. Judy Waid is retired after forty years of nursing. A graduate of Trumbull Memorial Hospital�s School of Nursing, wife and mother, she has always pursued her love of art. She studied at Kent State University and the Cleveland Institute of Art, and has received several art awards. The Ohio Nurses Association commissioned her to design medallions based on nursing personalities and historical moments in nursing now in museums, universities, private collections and in the textbook, Nursing, The Finest Art. Her portraits of prominent women in the Warren-Youngstown area are well-known and on display at the Warren Trumbull County Public Library and the Harriett Upton House. A member of the Trumbull Art Gallery and its portrait group, she lives with her husband in Howland, Ohio.
Bryner�s grasp of the harsh demands and simple satisfactions of rural life make for truly compelling poetry. Her honest and well-crafted testimonies remind us oft from the �gat it takes to get through life, the kind of quieter life in which many Americans still live and work, a life far removed from the more sensationally reality of sound bites and headlines. It is a privilege to have been let inside so many tender moments of everyday domesticity as are revealed in these finely measured poems. �Marc Harshman, poet laureate of West Virginia / / With a good reporter�s precision and a gifted poets empathy, Jeanne Bryner�s latest book focuses on �the epic of everyday life.� Here, she recreates the story of her husband, her children, the roof and doors of her house, un unpredictably garden, and her farmer neighbor�s crops and cattle....Both Shoes Off is a true gift from a wise and accomplished poet, straight from the �good bones church� of her remarkable life. �Maggie Anderson, author of Windfall: New and Selected Poems
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