Laura Sweeney

Poet

Bloomington , IL
Illinois US
Email: 
lauraswny@hotmail.com
Website: 
lauraswny.journoportfolio.com/

Author's Bio

Laura Sweeney facilitates Writers for Life in Iowa and Illinois. She represented the Iowa Arts Council at the First International Teaching Artist's Conference in Oslo, Norway. Her poems and prose appear in seventy plus journals, and twenty-three anthologies, in the States, Canada, Britain, Indonesia, and China. Her recent awards include a scholarship to the Sewanee Writer's  Conference. She is a PhD candidate in English Studies/Creative Writing at Illinois State University where she can be found walking the Consitution Trail with her adorbs mini-doxie Freya.

Education: 
Southern Illinois University Carbondale MFA
Writers Retreats: 
Sewanee Writers’ Conference

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Freedom (Moonstone Press, 2024)
,
International Women's Day (Moonstone Press, 2024)
,
Of Our Own Accord: Women's Embodied Poetry (Flying Ketchup Press, 2024)
,
Our State of the Union (Moonstone Press, 2024)
,
Traitor/Patriot: Reflections on January 6, 2021 (Moonstone Press, 2024)
,
World Poetry Day (Moonstone Press, 2024)
,
S/He Speaks: Voices of Women & Trans Folx (Moonstone Press, 2023)
,
Salvaged (Wordrunner eChapbooks, 2023)
,
Which Side Are You On (Moonstone Press, 2023)
,
We've Always Done It! (Alternating Current Press, 2022)
,
Women Speak Volume 7 (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2021)
,
Last Call: The anthology of beer, wine, & spirits poetry (Concrete Wolf, 2018)
,
Devices (Wordrunner eChapbooks, 2016)
,
In the Words of Womyn International (Yellow Chair Press, 2016)
,
It's About Time (Main Street Rag, 2016)
,
Nuclear Impact Anthology: Broken atoms in our hands (Shabda Press, 2016)
,
The Body in D(ist)ress (Negative Capability Press, 2015)
,
Farmscape: The changing rural environment (Ice Cube Press, LLC, 2012)
Journals:
Abstract Magazine
,
Adanna
,
Appalachia
,
Barely South Review
,
Broad!
,
Canadian Woman Studies/ les cahiers de la femme
,
Common Ground Review
,
Constellations
,
Descant
,
Door is a Jar Magazine
,
Evening Street Review
,
Fiction Southeast
,
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies
,
Good Men Project
,
Harpur Palate
,
Hawaii Pacific Review
,
Hedge Apple
,
I-70 Review
,
Impost: A Journal of Creative and Critical Work
,
IthacaLit
,
The Journal
,
Journal of Poetry Therapy
,
Lyrical Iowa
,
The Main Street Rag
,
Marathon Literary Review
,
Midwest Quarterly
,
Midwest Review
,
Mobius
,
MockingHeart Review
,
Museum of Americana
,
New Verse News
,
North Dakota Quarterly
,
One Sentence Poems
,
Open Minds Quarterly
,
Open: Journal of Arts & Letters
,
Peninsula Poets
,
Pilgrimage Magazine
,
Plainsongs
,
Poetica Magazine
,
Poetry South
,
Potomac Review
,
Qwerty
,
Red Savina Review
,
Rock & Sling
,
Saint Katherine Review
,
Sheila-Na-Gig
,
Shot Glass Journal
,
Split Rock Review
,
StepAway Magazine
,
Stoneboat
,
Streetcake Magazine
,
SWWIM Every Day
,
The Daily Palette
,
Tipton Poetry Journal
,
Toasted Cheese
,
Whale Road Review
,
Women's Studies Quarterly
,
Wordgathering
Prizes won: 

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  • Women of Appalachia Project, Juried Participant, 2021
  • Princemere Poetry Prize, Semi-Finalist, 2021
  • Poetry Society of Michigan's Barbara Sykes Memorial Humor Award, 2021
  • Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, Editor's Prize in Flash Discourse, 2021
  • St. Petersburg Review's Summer Literary Seminar, Juried Participant, Virtual Master Class in Hybrid Writing, 2021
  • Kaz Creative NonFiction Conference, Juried Participant, 2020
  • Sewanee Writer's Conference MFA Scholarship, 2019.
  • Sundress Publications Poetry Workshop & Residency Scholarship, 2019.
  • Iowa Arts Council delegate, First International Teaching Artist's Conference, Oslo, Norway
  • Grin City Collective Artist & Writers Residency Scholarship, 2009

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Born in: 
Estherville, IA
Iowa
Raised in: 
IA
Iowa
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Last update: Nov 18, 2024