For most of his life, the author has been immersed in the drama of NICU’s in settings as diverse as Boston Children’s Hospital and Martin Luther King Jr. County Hospital in Los Angeles. He is an authority in the field of neonatology, having published leading textbooks in the field and hundreds of research papers. He graduated from Harvard College with honors in English, and more recently completed an MA in English and creative writing from Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Taeusch has studied fiction writing at Squaw Valley Community of Writers, UC-Berkeley, and Harvard, and with Tom Jenks, Joan Leegant, Risa Miller, and Tom Parker. His short stories have been published in Manhattan Literary, Southern Indiana Review, Hurricane Review, Epicenter?, Ilanot Journal, Jewish Fiction.net, Wimpole Street Gazette, and anthologized in Israel Short Stories.