Laurel Radzieski

Laurel Radzieski is a poet and writer. Her second book, Leaf Manifesto, was awarded the Halcyon Award for Poetry and will be published by Middle Creek Publishing & Audio in summer 2024. Her first book, Red Mother (NYQ Books, 2018), won the 2020 Whirling Prize in Poetry. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New York Quarterly, Rust + Moth, Atlas and Alice, Clockhouse, HOOT, Kosmos Journal, House of Zolo’s Journal of Speculative Literature, Witcraft, and elsewhere, including on a street sign and roadsides in Wisconsin. She has been a writer-in-residence at Wormfarm Institute.  Laurel enjoys writing poems for strangers in public places on an electric typewriter. She is the Director of Grants at Alvernia University and teaches writing workshops for youth and adults. When not writing poetry or grant writing, she can usually be found playing board games and tabletop role playing games. Laurel earned her MFA at Goddard College and her BA at Keystone College. She lives in Reading, Pennsylvania.