Laurie Lamon’s poems have appeared in journals and magazines including The Atlantic, The New Republic, Arts & Letters Journal of Contemporary Culture, Plume, J Journal: New Writing on Justice, Innisfree Poetry Journal, North American Review, and others. She has two poetry collections published at CavanKerry Press: The Fork Without Hunger and Without Wings. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and was selected by Donald Hall as a Witter Bynner Fellow. She currently holds the Amy Ryan Endowed professorship at Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash.