Marian Kaplun Shapiro received her BA in English from Queens College, and her Masters and Doctorate from Harvard University. She is the author of Second Childhood (Norton, 1989), as well as chapters in What Is Psychotherapy? (Jossey-Bass, 1990) and Adult Play Therapy (John Wiley, in press). She lives in Lexington, Massachusetts. Her poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 12.