Laura Mc Cullough

Laura Mc Cullough

Laura McCullough is an American poet and writer living in New Jersey. She is the author of Panic, winner of a 2009 Kinereth Gensler Award, Alice James Books (011), Speech Acts, Black Lawrence Press (010), and What Men Want, XOXOX Press (09). Her next book poems, Rigger Death & Hoist Another, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in early 013. Her chapbook, Women and Other Hostages, won a 2009 Flip Kelly Award, Amsterdam Press. She is the editor of two anthologies, The Room & the World: Essays on the poet Stephen Dunn, forthcoming from Syracuse University Press, fall 013 and A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry & Race, forthcoming from University of Georgia Press, fall 014. McCullough has been awarded two New Jersey State Arts Council Fellowships, one in prose and one in poetry. She has been awarded scholarships or fellowships from Sewanee Writers Conference, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, The Nebraska Summer Writers Conference, and was a finalist for a fellowship in Creative Non-fiction at the DC Writers House. She holds an MFA in fiction from Goddard College, and her essays, criticism, poems, short fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in the Georgia Review, New South, Guernica, The American Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, Pank, The Writer's Chronicle, Gulf Coast, Pedestal, Painted Bride Quarterly, and others. A featured performer at the 2010 Dodge Poetry Festival, she is also editing and anthology of essays by contemporary poets on the work of Stephen Dunn. She is the editor of Mead: the Magazine of Literature and Libations, and an editor at large for TransPortal Magazine.