Laura Newbern

Laura Newbern’s Love and the Eye was selected by Claudia Rankine as the winner of the 2010 Kore Press First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, the Oxford American, TriQuarterly, and Stand, and in the anthologies Best New Poets and Urban Nature. An associate professor of English and creative writing at Georgia College and State University, Newbern serves as the poetry editor of Arts & Letters. Her other honors include a residency at Yaddo and a Writer’s Award from the Rona Jaffe Foundation.