ANNE LAURA FRIEDMAN grew up in Lexington, Mass., and now lives in Brookline, Mass. She majored in economics at Mount Holyoke College. After realizing the error of her ways, she wrote her thesis on Wallace Stevens and went on to graduate school at Boston University, where she studied with George Starbuck and Derek Walcott. Her poems have appeared in Poetry East and The Painted Bride Quarterly. She works at The Harvard Business Review, which pays the rent but keeps her writing well into the night.