Marty Ross-Dolen is a graduate of Wellesley College and Albert Einstein College of Medicine and is a retired child and adolescent psychiatrist. She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and participated in graduate-level workshops at The Ohio State University. Her memoir, Always There, Always Gone: A Daughter's Search for Truth, publishes in May 2025 from She Writes Press. She facilitates the Adult Writers' Studio at Thurber House in Columbus and lives in Bexley, Ohio.