BIO: Anita Kestin, M.D., M.P.H., is a physician who has worked in academics, nursing homes, hospices, public health, and the locked ward of a psychiatric facility. She is also the daughter (of immigrants fleeing the Holocaust), a wife, a mother, a grandmother, and a progressive activist. Although she has been writing for many years, she has only started to submit work (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) during the pandemic. Her first non-scientific piece was accepted when she was 64 years old.