LAURA NEWBERN

Laura Newbern, an Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing at Georgia College & State University since 2005, teaches graduate and undergraduate poetry workshops, poetics, and other Creative Writing and literature courses.  Laura is also the Poetry Editor of Arts & Letters. 
  
She earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.  Laura returned to Warren Wilson when she was awarded their first Joan Beebe Graduate Teaching Fellowship. Laura also holds an M.A. in English/Creative Writing from New York University, and she earned her B.A. at Barnard College at Columbia University.  Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Oxford American, TriQuarterly, and Stand (U.K.), and in the anthologies Best New

Poets 2007 and Urban Nature.