Jon Mukand has a Ph.D. in English literature from Brown University and a medical degree, with honors in research, from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Editor of Sutured Words: Contemporary Poetry about Medicine, whose strongest poems were included in Articulations, Vital Lines: Contemporary Fiction about Medicine, and Rehabilitations for Patients with HIV Disease, he is the medical director of a rehabilitation center as well as a faculty member at Boston University and Brown University.