Laura Sobbott Ross

Laura Sobbott Ross has worked as a teacher and a writing coach in Lake County, Florida, where she was named as the inaugural poet laureate. Her poetry appears in more than 100 literary journals. In addition to several Pushcart Prize nominations, she was a finalist for the Arts&Letters Poetry Award and won the Southern Humanities Review Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, "A Tiny Hunger," was the winner of the Seventh Annual YellowJacket Press Chapbook Contest for Florida Poets, and her second chapbook , "My Mississippi," was published by Anchor&Plume Press. Her full length books of poetry are "The Graffiti of Pompeii" (Adelaide Books) and "The Trees Will Remain" (Bell Ring Books).