Bio: Barbara E. Dolan was a journalist for Lerner Newspaper in Chicago, and won a National Newspaper Association honorable mention award for commentary writing. Ms. Dolan became editor for the Hospital Medical Staff Section monthly newsletter for the American Medical Association, and later accepted the position of managing editor for the American Academy of Dermatology’s Dermatology Times. Ms. Dolan wrote the comprehensive community plans for the City of Wood Dale and the housing report for the City of Elgin. After raising two children, Ms. Dolan became a licensed clinical professional counselor. She has written and self-published six children’s picture books for her grandchildren, and is working on a middle-school fiction story for her 13- and 15-year-old granddaughters. She has published her short story, Ships that Pass in the Night, in the Literary Yard online magazine, March 16, 2021. SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM