Author JL Huffman is a former LPN, who continued her medical education and is now a retired Trauma Surgeon/ICU doctor. She is a prior medical editor of Northeast Florida Medicine, is published in the surgical literature, and has won local, state, and national poetry contests. Her first book was Almanac: The Four Seasons (2020), the second Family Treasons (2021), third Voyage: Vista and Verse (2022), and most recent KAR-KU (2023). She lives a full life as an avid world traveler and gardener. The author exercises her muse and writes in diverse genres, poetry, memoir, and fiction.