Laura Mullen

A MacDowell and Karolyi Foundation Fellow, a Rona Jaffe Award recipient and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Laura Mullen holds degrees from the University of Iowa and U.C. Berkeley and she has taught at Naropa, Brown, and Columbia College as well as Colby, Colorado State University, and Louisiana State University—among other institutions. Her poetry has been anthologized in collections from Norton, Wesleyan, and elsewhere; 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. A CD of Jason Eckardt’s setting of her poem “The Distance (This)” is available from Mode records. A collaboration (Verge) with artist John David O’Brien was published in 2017, and her translation of Veronique Pittolo’s Hero was published by Black Square Editions in 2019. Solid Objects published her ninth collection, EtC, in 2023.