Liz Whiteacre has taught in higher ed for over twenty years and is currently an award-winning associate professor of English at the University of Indianapolis where she teaches writing and publishing, as well as advises Etchings Press. She is the author of Hit the Ground and the forthcoming chapbook, It could account for the panic. Her poetry has appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly, Wordgathering, Kaleidoscope, and other publications. She developed this workshop series as a research fellow with UIndy’s Center for Aging and Community and Indiana’s CICOA, delivering it to health care workers, care givers, and criminal justice workers in the state of Indiana.