Mary Dean Lee grew up in Milledgeville, Georgia. She studied theatre and literature at Duke University and Eckerd College (Florida), before receiving her PhD in organizational behaviour at Yale University. As a professor in the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, she has published in Harvard Business Review, Psychology Today and many academic journals. Her poetry has appeared recently in Hamilton Arts & Letters, The Tishman Review, and Montreal Serai, and is forthcoming in the following magazines: Event, Grain, and The Halcyone. She lives in Montreal, Canada.