Carolyn Kelley Williams has lovingly worked with words all her life. She spent most of her long career as a medical writer and editor in academic medicine, for thirty years as Senior Editor of Publications in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Medical School, in Chicago, Illinois, and as the Managing Editor of The International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, and other scientific journals and textbooks. 

She began her career, after graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in Theatre and English, as the editorial assistant to the renowned gastroenterologist and diagnostician, Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, who taught her the language and history of medicine, and the 14 years she worked with Dr. Alvarez, until he closed his editorial office, were rich and world-expanding ones. Dr. Alvarez, upon retirement from the Mayo Clinic, had opened the editorial office in Chicago, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of two medical journals and wrote an internationally syndicated newspaper column about medicine and health. Born in 1884, he was an intern at the San Francisco County Hospital during the San Francisco earthquake and fire in 1906, and saw the coming of modern medicine, including the development of penicillin, the sulfa drugs, insulin, and the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935. 

The author of three published books, Ms. Williams is currently preparing for the publication of her fourth: a poetry collection entitled Seasons of the Spirit; Visions of the Eightfuld Year. It will be published in 2025 through the World Enough & Time imprint.