Books
Common Name, winner of the Poets Corner 2026 Chapbook Award, published by Toad Hall Editions, forthcoming fall 2026
“These poems keep turning toward the world—toward the child’s voice, the river’s body, the small, bright pop of a flower—and in that turning, they make a place where wonder and worry can stand side by side without shame. They remind us that close attention is its own kind of devotion, that to name what is fragile, fleeting, and alive means to love it more fully.”
—Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Pre-order Common Name here.
Watch Laura read from her poetry chapbook and discuss her work with competition judge, poet & essayist, Aimee Nezhukumatathil.
Poems
“Littoraria irrorata (Marsh Periwinkle)” | Gulf Coast, Spring 2026
“Costume Party” & “The Circus” | SWING, Fall/Winter 2024
“Sonnet for Margot with Three Vulvas, Two Penises, and a Merry-Go-Round” | Variant Literature, Issue 15
Prose
Book Review: The Self-Fed Farm and Garden: A Return to the Roots of the Organic Method By Eliot Coleman. Civil Eats. December 2025
Book Review: Sea of Grass:The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie By Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty. Civil Eats. July 2025
Book Review: My (Half) Latinx Kitchen: Half Recipes, Half Stories, All Latin American By Kiera Wright-Ruiz. Civil Eats. July 2025.
Book Review: Standing in the Forest of Being Alive By Katie Farris. Good River Review. June 2024.
Book Review: Our Little Farm: Adventures in Sustainable Living By Peter and Miriam Wohlleben, translated and adapted by Jane Billinghurst. Civil Eats. December 2023.
Book Review: Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden By Camille T. Dungy. Civil Eats. June 2023