Laura McCullough is an American poet and writer living in New Jersey. She is the author of four collections of poetry including two forthcoming books, Panic, winner of a 2009 Kinereth Gensler Award which will be published by Alice James Books in January 011 and Speech Acts (Black Lawrence Press, fall, 2010). Her most recent collection is What Men Want (XOXOX Press, 2009). Her chapbook,"Women and Other Hostages," won the 2009 Flip Kelly Award, second place, and is forthcoming from Amsterdam Press. Her chapbook of prose poems, Elephant Anger, was published online at Mudlark. McCullough has been awarded two New Jersey State Arts Council Fellowships, one in prose and one in poetry. Her poems, fiction, reviews, and essays have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, Boulevard, Prairie Schooner, and other venues. She has an MFA in fiction from Goddard College, and teaches at Brookdale Community College in New Jersey. She is a doctoral candidate in Creative and Critical Writing at Bangor University in Wales, UK. Her critical work focuses on the poetry and essays of Stephen Dunn.