Laura Mullen

Laura’s recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fence, Bomb, Poetry, and The Nation, and has been anthologized in collections from Norton, Wesleyan, and Omnidawn. Her first book, The Surface, was a National Poetry Series selection, and her subsequent poetry collections and hybrid-genre works have been published by the University of California Press, futurepoem, and Otis / Seismicity among other presses: her eighth collection, Complicated Grief, was published by Solid Objects in 2015. A CD of Jason Eckardt’s setting of her poem “The Distance (This)” is available from mode records. A MacDowell and Karolyi Foundation Fellow, a featured poet at the International Poetry Festival in Taipei, a Rona Jaffe Award recipient and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Laura holds degrees from the University of Iowa and U.C. Berkeley. She has been a visiting poet at Naropa, Brown, and Columbia College. Her collaboration with composer Nathan Davis, a Sound uttered, “a Sound uttered, a Silence crossed,” had its premiere in La Jolla in 2014, was performed at Notre Dame in 2015 and will be performed at Williams College in 2016.