Attorney Jo Kline began writing about the legal and health care issues of health literacy and medical decision making after her service as volunteer chair of Iowa's largest hospice. Jo’s writing over the past decade includes her THE 60-MINUTE GUIDE TO HEALTH LITERACY, The practical guide to Health Care Advance Directives and the award-winning SO GROWS THE TREE – Creating an Ethical Will. Her first novel EXIT, set in a small-town hospice, was released in 2014. Jo is also the creator of a multistate Health Care Advance Directive that reflects contemporary medical conditions and treatment choices and acts as a guide for medical decision making in any health care situation.  Among other print and broadcast media, Jo has been featured in The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Des Moines Register. She is a frequent guest essayist for The Des Moines Register and a contributor to online news outlets.  

The practical guide to Health Care Advance Directives, SO GROWS THE TREE - Creating and Ethical Will and Last things first, just in case... are all award winners as Foreward Magazine and USA Book News books of the year.