Do you know who wrote it?

Nope Jackie - just stumblegoogled across it.

Ah, here's her (for the writer is a she) home page:
http://www.iit.edu/~hockaly/


Edit:
I like this other poems of Alyssa's -
http://www.iit.edu/~hockaly/pofragments.html

(full list of her poems is at:
http://www.iit.edu/~hockaly/poetry.html
- several good ones.)