Janet Gilsdorf is professor emerita in pediatrics and epidemiology at the University of Michigan and teaches in the University of Michigan Medical School's Medical Humanities Pathway. Her memoir Inside/Outside: A Physician's Journey with Breast Cancer was published in 2006 by the University of Michigan Press, and her novel Ten Days, was published in 2012 by Kensington Books. Her non-fiction book, Continual Raving: The Story of Meningitis and The People Who Conquered It, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019, and her novel Fever was published by Beaufort Books in 2022. In 1974 - 1975, she was extremely fortunate to work and live in Bethel, Alaska, the setting for this novel. She currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with her husband Jim.