Jacqueline Marino is a professor of journalism at Kent State University. Her work has appeared in many magazines and online outlets, including The Washington Post, Bicycling, and the literary journal River Teeth. She is a former associate editor of Cleveland Magazine, a national Edward R. Murrow Award-winning audio journalist, and the author of the book White Coats: Three Journeys through an American Medical School (Kent State University Press, 2012). Her edited book, Car Bombs to Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology (Belt Publishing, 2015, 2^nd edition, 2020), amplifies the voices of writers from her hometown of Youngstown, Ohio.