Marian Kaplun Shapiro, a practicing psychologist, is the author of a professional book, Second Childhood (Norton, 1988), her first poetry book, Players In The Dream, Dreamers In The Play (Plain View Press, 2007) and two chapbooks. A resident of Lexington, she is a five-time Senior Poet Laureate of Massachusetts. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2012. Her latest book of experimental poems, At The Edge Of The Cliff, has just been published by Plain View Press this January. She is currently completing a new collection of graphic poems.