Laurie Perry Vaughen is a recent graduate of the Sewanee School of Letters MFA program and lives in Boston. Vaughen's poems have been featured at ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment), Georgia Center for the Book, Emma Bell Miles Symposium on Southern Appalachian Nature and Culture, and Word of [South] Festival of Literature and Music. An emerging poet, Vaughen's poems have been published in Chattahoochee Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Greensboro Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Laurel Review.