KRISTIN LAUREL

Kristin Laurel is a mother of three, employed as an emergency room and helicopter-transport nurse. She credits her passion for poetry to The Loft Literary Center (Minneapolis) where she began taking writing classes in 2005 and completed a two-year immersion program in poetry in 2011. Her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including CALYX, Evening Street Review, Grey Sparrow Journal, The Main Street Rag, Naugatuck River Review, Raleigh Review, The Talking Stick, and others. She and her partner share homes in the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina and the lake town of Waconia, Minnesota.