Laura Minor won the 2025 Silver Medal in The Florida Book Awards, the 2023 Minds on Fire Open Book Prize, and the 2020 John Ciardi Poetry Prize. Her critically acclaimed debut book of poems, Flowers as Mind Control, is on BkMk Press/University of Arkansas Press, 2021. She was also a finalist for the 2019 National Poetry Series and the winner of the 2019 ILA’s Rita Dove Poetry Award. Her second book, Bright Life/Animal Heart, is now available at conduit.org. She received her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her Ph.D. from FSU. Her work has appeared in The Missouri Review, Cortland Review, SWWIM, Nelle, Mantis, The North American Review, Ploughshares, Quiddity International Literary Magazine & Public Radio, and Arc Poetry Magazine, Canada.
