Laura Joyce-Hubbard is the inaugural Highland Park Poet Laureate, a fiction editor for TriQuarterly, and an MFA candidate at Northwestern University. Her work appears in Poetry, The Iowa Review, The Sewanee Review, The Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction was selected as a “Notable” in The Best American Essays 2022 and 2023 and won an AWP Intro Journal Award (2023). Laura's work can also be read in the anthologies, Wanting: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult, 2023) and Our Best War Stories (Middle West Press, 2020). Recent awards include The Iowa Review's Veteran Writing Award, the Porch Prize in Poetry, the Ned Stuckey-French Nonfiction Contest at Southeast Review, runner-up of the 2021 Poetry Contest at The Sewanee Review, and winner of the Individual Poem Prize and Essay Prize in the William Faulkner Pirate’s Alley Writing Competition. Laura is a 2023 and 2024 Gregory Djanikian Finalist in poetry from The Adroit Journal and received the Janecek Fellowship from Ragdale Foundation, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship to attend the VCCA, and veteran scholarships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Community Building Art Works, and Longleaf Writers Conference. Laura flew C-130s in the U.S. Air Force and served for 20 years. She is represented by Anna Sproul-Latimer, Neon Literary.
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