Embryonic Vigilante

First Published in the journal, Constructiivism in the Human Sciences after being diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the central nervous system in July, 1999. Her poem, “When You Know You Are Going to Die, For Sure,” was then translated into more than sixty languages. Dr. Lanier recently won first place in a nationwide writing contest for her essay entitled “The Smart Poor.” The essay was recently published in her hometown newspaper in Malibu, California, where she lives with her husband, Dale, and their daughter, Sascha. Andrea became a psychoananytic psychologist in 2003.