Laura McCullough's most recent book of poems is RIGGER DEATH & HOIST ANOTHER. Her other books are PANIC, Speech Acts, and WHAT MEN WANT. She is the editor of two anthologies: The Room & the World: Essays on the Poetry of Stephen Dunn, forthcoming from Syracuse University Press, and A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race, forthcoming from University of Georgia Press. In 2014, Emerge Literary Publications will publish a series of three books, Ripple & Snap, micro- fiction/prose-poem story, Shutters*Voices*Wind, linked monologues, and The Smashing House, a short fiction chapbook. 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 others. Her essays, criticism, poems, creative non-fiction, and short 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. She is the editor of Mead: the Magazine of Literature and Libations and an editor at large for TranStudies Magazine.