Vicki Lawrence has many years of experience in journal management and in writing and editing for publications in science, health, medicine, and the arts and humanities. She has an MFA in writing and literature from Bennington College and also writes fiction. Currently she is spending her free time coping with a new house, a recurrently flooding basement, and a rogue zucchini plant that has taken over her garden, climbed up the steps, and now leans menacingly against her back window, its tendrils searching for purchase on the glass.