Midwest Gothic

Laura Donnelly's first book of poetry, WATERSHED (Cider Press Review, 2014), won the 2013 Cider Press Review Editors' Prize, her second book of poetry is MIDWEST GOTHIC (Ashland Poetry Press, 2020), and her poems have appeared in Indiana Review, Missouri Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Passages North, PANK, Mississippi Review, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the State University of New York at Oswego, where she teaches poetry writing and literature and serves as the director of Oswego's visiting writers series. Originally from Michigan, Donnelly received an MFA from Purdue University and a PhD in English/Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. Her work has been supported by fellowships and scholarships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Corporation of Yaddo, the I-Park Foundation, and the Sewanee Writers Conference. She lives in Oswego, New York, with her husband Ben and a calico cat named Sue.