Ellen Aronofsky Cole is a poet, actress, and teaching artist. Her publications include her chapbook Prognosis, published by Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in The Bellevue Literary Review, Little Patuxent Review, Potomac Review, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Washington Post Magazine, Bogg: A Journal of Contemporary Writing, and Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine, and elsewhere. Her article "My Life as a (Fake) Patient," was published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Ellen works as a medical actress, role playing with medical students. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with her husband Brian, and a small, feisty parrot named Haiku.