Laura Shovan

Poet

Maryland US

Email:

Website:

authoramok.blogspot.com/

Author's Bio

Laura Shovan is editor of the art and literary journal Little Patuxent Review and of two poetry anthologies. Her chapbook, Mountain, Log, Salt and Stone, won the inaugural Harriss Poetry Prize. In 2012, Laura was a finalist for the Rita Dove Poetry Award. She was a 2013 Gettysburg Review Conference for Writers scholarship recipient and has recent poems in The Fourth River and Switched-on Gutenberg and forthcoming in Barely South. Laura works with young poets as a Maryland State Arts Council Artist-in-Residence.

Publications & Prizes

Book:

Mountain, Log, Salt, and Stone (CityLit Press, 2010)

Prizes won:

Clarinda Harriss Poetry Prize, 2010
Rita Dove Poetry Award Finalist, 2012
Gettysburg Review Conference Scholarship Winner, 2013

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now:

The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel, Present Vanshing by Dick Allen, The Best American Poetry of 2011 by David Lehman

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

White

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Teaneck

Raised in:

Wyckoff, NJ

New Jersey

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Last update: Jan 17, 2014