Louise B. Bennett is a retired physician and a Swarthmore College graduate. She previously worked at a clinic in Rochester, NY serving refugees from many countries, including Burma and Tanzania. She has published two chapbooks, Translating the Pain and Tumaini Means Hope: Poems of Tanzania. She has also published her memoir, Pass on the Torch: Stories of Social Justice, Family and Adventure and House Calls, a volume of her selected poems, and several other volumes of poetry The Path: Kendal through the Seasons, Home to Water, and Next Steps, a second set of collected poems.