Laura Mullen
Laura Mullen (born 1958 in Los Angeles), is a contemporary American poet working in hybrid genres and traditions. Life and work. Mullen received her BA in English from UC Berkeley and her MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop before going to teach at, among other places, Colorado State University, where her courses included seminars on Modernism, Postmodernism, and Cross-Genre Writing. She’s also been invited as a guest author to teach at Naropa University's Summer Writing Program (1996, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2008), Columbia College – Chicago - (spring semester 2003), Brown University (2001), and  the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop Summer Program, (1998). She was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1988 and has since received numerous other fellowships in the United States and abroad. She is currently on the permanent faculty at Louisiana State University, teaching literature, creative writing, and film.