LAURA READ has published poems in a variety of journals, most recently in Rock & Sling and Crab Creek Review. Her chapbook, The Chewbacca on Hollywood Boulevard Reminds Me of You, was the
2010 winner of the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award, and her collection, Instructions for My Mother’s Funeral, was the 2011 winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and was published in 2012 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her second collection, Dresses from the Old Country, will be published by BOA in fall of 2018. She teaches English at Spokane Falls Community College and currently serves as the poet laureate of Spokane, Washington.