Lauren Myers-Hinkle writes hybrid texts that draw upon ekphrasis, persona poetry, prose poetics, formal and sonic play, citation, and collage to reimagine history and cinematic experience. She was a finalist for the Missouri Review’s 2024 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize and the American Literary Review’s 2024 poetry award. Lauren’s poems and literary journalism have appeared in such publications as RHINO, Carve Magazine, and the Writer’s Chronicle, and her writing has also been anthologized in Disobedient Futures (University Press of Kentucky, forthcoming 2026). She serves as Poetry Editor of The Maine Review, recently attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and earned an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she also studied literary translation. Prior to the MFA, she completed graduate work in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.
