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.