She was a first prize winner in Poetry Society of America’s Gordon Barber Poetry Contest. Laura was the sole representative of the United States at the XXVI Annual International Struga Poetry Readings in Yugoslavia. Awards for her writing also include an American Literary Translators Award and three Fellowships in Creative Writing from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She received the first International Poetry Award at the International Poetry Festival at Swansea, Wales (sponsored by Cross-Cultural Communications and Seventh Quarry Magazine of Wales). Her collections of poetry include Stripping, the award-winning On the Edge of the Hudson, Reports from the Front, which was nominated for an American Book Award, Arms: New and Selected Work and Flashlight. Laura is the founder and Editor of Lips poetry magazine.