Aimee Hoben is a lawyer and writer who lives with her husband, two kids, and two dogs. She has worked as a land conservation lawyer and town attorney, as well as in-house counsel at the historic fire insurance company (and Fortune 500 corporation) where Wallace Stevens wrote poems as he walked to work. She studied English literature at the University of Colorado and law at the University of Connecticut. She divides her time between northwest Connecticut and Waitsfield, Vermont.