Jim Schley moved to New England in the mid-1970s to attend Dartmouth College, where he majored in Creative Writing and Native American Studies. He earned a Master of Fine Arts from Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers and for many years worked as a literary editor and toured extensively with experimental and activist theater companies, including the world-renowned Bread and Puppet Theater, the Swiss ensemble Les Montreurs d’Images, and Flock Dance Troupe. He is former co-editor of New England Review and editor of the anthology Writing in a Nuclear Age and of more than a hundred books on a diversity of subjects. His poems and essays have been featured in Ironwood, Crazyhorse, Rivendell, and Orion, on Garrison Keillor’s radio show “The Writer’s Almanac,” in Best American Spiritual Writing, in a chapbook, One Another (Chapiteau, 1999), and in a full-length book of poems: As When, In Season ( Marick Press, 2008).
Jim is also executive director of The Frost Place, a museum and poetry center based at Robert Frost’s historic farm in Franconia, New Hampshire. He lives with his wife and their daughter in a house they built themselves on an off-the-grid cooperative in Vermont.

“With the aim of protecting the quality of life of elderly patients, Dennis McCullough, a member of the Dartmouth Medical School faculty and former Kendal medical director, developed the idea of “slow medicine” — a slower, more deliberate and critical approach to medical treatment for the elderly. Many physicians automatically advocate aggressive treatment for all patients’ diseases, but the idea of slow medicine suggests that such treatment is not always best for elderly patients.” — Emily Goodell, The Dartmouth, May 15, 2008
Dennis McCullough, M.D., author of My Mother, Your Mother: The Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones, has been an “in-the-trenches” family physician and geriatrician for 30 years. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, and serves as a faculty member in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. He is a member of the American Geriatrics Society, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and the American Medical Directors Association, as well as the coauthor of The Little Black Book of Geriatrics. He lives with his wife, the poet Pamela Harrison, in Norwich, VT.