Richard Donze is a physician author whose poems and essays have appeared in medical journals and newsletters and four anthologies of physician poetry: Blood and Bone, Primary Care, Uncharted Lines and Voices from the Front Lines: The Pandemic and the Humanities. In 1998 Nova Science Publishers (Imprint, Kroshka Books) published his nonfiction book Dinner Music: How to Compose the Permanently Perfect Diet, a right-brained approach to nutrition advice. The Natural Order of Things, his first poetry collection, was published in November 2021 by Finishing Line Press. Dr. Donze was an undergraduate English major at the University of Pennsylvania before embarking on a medical career, and currently practices at Chester County Hospital in West Chester, PA, part of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, as Medical Director of the Hospital's Occupational Medicine Program. He lives in West Chester, PA with his wife Kathleen. The Secret Saint Anthony Prayer is his first published work of fiction.