Lara Mimosa Montes

Lara Mimosa Montes is the author of THRESHOLES (Coffee House Press, 2020) and The Somnambulist (Horse Less Press, 2016). Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, Fence, BOMB, Jacket2, and elsewhere. She holds a Ph.D. in English from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the recipient of artist residencies from MacDowell, Jentel, and Marble House Project. In 2018, she was awarded a McKnight Writing Fellowhip in Poetry and a CantoMundo Fellowship. She teaches in XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement Master’s program at NYU.