Laura Lauth teaches creative writing at the University of Maryland’s Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House, where she served as founding director from 2002-2005. She holds an MFA in creative writing and a PhD in English literature and has written extensively on translation and American poetry. She was recipient of the spring 2014 Orlando Prize in Poetry and the Tupelo  Broadside Prize. Her poems have recently appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Los Angeles Review, and Tupelo Quarterly, among others. She lives outside Washington, DC.