Laura Minor won the 2020 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry for Flowers As Mind Control (BkMk Press, 2021). She was a finalist for the 2019 National Poetry Series and she won the 2019 International Literary Awards’s Rita Dove Poetry Award (chosen by Marilyn Nelson) and the 2017 Emerging Writers Spotlight Award (chosen by poet D.A. Powell). Her poetry has most recently appeared in North American Review, The Missouri Review, The Normal School, South Carolina Review, Quiddity International Literary Journal, and Arc Poetry Magazine.