Karie Friedman
earned a B.A. from Reed College and worked for many years as an editor,
first on small literary journals and for the Michigan State University Press, then for the APS journal Reviews
of Modern Physics. She was the Assistant Editor of RMP under two successive Editors, David Pines and George
Bertsch, retiring in 2005. From 2006 to 2010 she was Editor of the online newsletter of the Institute for
Complex Adaptive Matter, ICAMNews, while embarking on a second career as a poet and returning to school to
earn an MFA in creative writing. Her poems have since appeared in numerous literary journals and she is seeking
a publisher for a collection entitled “Flashlight in the Well.”