Laura-Gray Street
Virginia, United States
Member Since: 09/01/2007
Laura-Gray Street is the author of Pigment and Fume (Salmon Poetry, 2014) and Shift Work (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2018) and co-editor (with Ann Fisher-Wirth) of The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press, 2013) and (with Rose McLarney) of A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia (University of Georgia Press, 2019). She has been the recipient of poetry prizes from The Greensboro Review, the Dana Awards, the Southern Women Writers Conference, Isotope: A Journal of Literary Science and Nature Writing, and Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments. Her work has been published in The Colorado Review, Poecology, Poet Lore, Poetry Daily, Hawk & Handsaw, Many Mountains Moving, Gargoyle, ISLE, Shenandoah, Meridian, Blackbird, The Notre Dame Review, and elsewhere; and supported by fellowships from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Artist House at St. Mary's College in Maryland, and, most recently, the Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences, where she was the Garland Distinguished Fellow. Street holds an MA from the University of Virginia and an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She is an associate professor of English, directs the Creative Writing and Visiting Writers Series Program, and edits the literary journal Revolute at Randolph College* in Lynchburg, Virginia.
*founded in 1891 as Randolph-Macon Woman's College
Website: www.lauragraystreet.com
Twitter Username: @RClgstreet
Degrees
- Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers
- Master of Arts in English from the University of Virginia
- Bachelor of Arts in English from Hollins University
Genres of Interest
Fiction, Poetry