Laura Maylene Walter is the author of the novel Body of Stars (Dutton, 2021), an Ohioana Book Awards Finalist and a UK Booksellers Association Fiction Book of the Month selection. Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Kenyon Review, The Sun, Ninth Letter, Slate, Literary Hub, The Masters Review, Horse Girls (Harper Perennial, 2021), and elsewhere. She has received grants, fellowships, or residencies from Sewanee, Yaddo, Tin House, the Ohio Arts Council, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, VCCA, the Chautauqua Institution, the Ohioana Library Association, and Art Omi: Writers. She was a founding editor of Literary Cleveland’s Gordon Square Review, and she is currently the Ohio Center for the Book Fellow at Cleveland Public Library, where she hosts Page Count, a literary podcast.