Anselm Brocki was a senior editor for Houghton Mifflin before beginning her own editing business. Her first book of poetry, Mornings at the All-Nite, was published in 1995 by Alpha Beat Press. She has a chapbook forthcoming from Phoenix Press. Her poems have appeared in over 400 publications including The Amherst Review, Maryland Poetry Review and Walt�s Corner. She lives in Santa Monica, California. (2000)