Laura McCullough's books of poetry include RIGGER DEATH AND HOIST ANOTHER (Black Lawrence Press, 2013), PANIC (winner of the Kinereth Gensler Award, Alice James Books, 2011), SPEECH ACTS (Black Lawrence Press, 2010), and WHAT MEN WANT (XOXOX Books, 2009), and her first book, The Dancing Bear (Open Book Press, 06). Her chapbooks include Women & Other Hostages (Gob Pile Poetry Series, Amsterdam Books, 011), and Elephant Anger, online at Mudlark. She is the editor of two anthologies, The Room & the World: Essays on the poet Stephen Dunn, Syracuse University Press, Fall 2013, and A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race, University of Georgia Press, slated for Fall 2014. She is the editor of Mead: the Magazine of Literature and Libations and an editor at large for TranStudies Magazine. She holds an MFA from Goddard College, and her essays, criticism, poems, creative non-fiction, and short fiction have appeared in or are forthcoming in The Georgia Review, The Birmingham Review, The Florida Review, New South, Guernica, The American Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, Pank, The Writer's Chronicle, Gulf Coast, Pedestal, Painted Bride Quarterly, and many others. She has recently completed a full length memoir, The Belt of Venus.
