Laura McCullough
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Laura McCullough is an American
poet and writer living in New Jersey. She is the author of four collections of poetry including, 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. 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, 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. 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. She teaches in the Winter Poetry and Prose Conference in southern NJ and founded the Creative Writing Program and Visiting Writers Series at Brookdale Community College in central Jersey.
Chapbooks
Poems Published Online
Prose Published Online
Author interviews & readings & author website
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poet and writer living in New Jersey. She is the author of four collections of poetry including, 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. 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, 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. 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. She teaches in the Winter Poetry and Prose Conference in southern NJ and founded the Creative Writing Program and Visiting Writers Series at Brookdale Community College in central Jersey.
Published works
Full-length poetry collections- Panic (Alice James Books)
- Speech Acts (Black Lawrence Press)
- What Men Want (XOXOX Press, 2008)
- The Dancing Bear (Open Book Press, 2006)
Chapbooks
- Women and Other Hostages (Amsterdam Press, 2010)
- Elephant Anger (Mudlark, 2007)
External links
- Mead Magazine http://www.meadmagazine.org/Mead.html
- Trans-Portal Magazine http://www.transtudies.org/Home.html
Poems Published Online
- POEM: Verse Daily > At the Jumps by Laura McCullough
- POEM: The 2River Review > 11.4 (summer 2007) > Laura McCullough: Two Poems
- POEM: Verse Daily > We Argue about Regret by Laura McCullough
- POEM: Umbrella: A Journal of Poetry and Kindred Prose > Issue 7 Summer 2008 > Beautiful Androgyne by Laura McCullough
- POEM: 42Opus > 28 December 2005 | Vol. 5, No. 4 > Moment by Laura McCullough
- POEM: Diode > Fall 2007, Vol. 1, No. 1 > Animal Engine by Laura McCullough
- POEMS: Spoken War > Two Poems by Laura McCullough
- POEMS: Word Riot > Three Poems by Laura McCullough
- CHAPBOOK: Mudlark > No. 32 (2007) > Elephant Anger > by Laura McCullough
Prose Published Online
- STORY: Guernica Magazine: A Magazine of Art & Politics > July 2008 > Plastic Jade by Laura McCullough
- INTERVIEW BY LAURA MCCULLOUGH: Small Spiral Notebook > Laura McCullough Interviews Bob Hicok, Author of This Clumsy Living
- INTERVIEW BY LAURA MCCULLOUGH: Small Spiral Notebook > Inside Hart’s Mind: Laura McCullough Interviews Matt Hart, Author of Who's Who Vivid
- REVIEW BY LAURA MCCULLOUGH: Small Spiral Notebook > Volume IV, Issue 4, Spring 2006 > Hoops by Major Jackson, Reviewed by Laura McCullough
- Reviews by Laura Mccullough: In Possee Review > The Tyrant Gods Are Overthrown: A Review of Book Of My Nights by Li-Young Lee and Gravedigger's Birthday by BJ Ward
Author interviews & readings & author website
- Interview with Laura McCullough: What Men Want: An Interview with Laura Mccullough by Adam Elenbass of Reality Sandwich
- AUDIO INTERVIEW WITH LAURA MCCULLOUGH: "The Joe Milford Poetry Show > Joe Milford Hosts Laura McCullough > January 3, 2009
- AUDIO READING: Laura McCullough Reads for From the Fishouse
- AUTHOR WEBSITE