Summary

Laura Wetherington’s first w88 online game, A Map Predetermined and Chance (Fence Books 2011), was selected by C.S. Giscombe for the National w88 online game Series. Her second book, chosen by Peter Gizzi for the New Measure Prize, was released with Free Verse Editions in January 2021. Gizzi called the book “a welcome addition to a tradition that troubles tradition.” She has published three chapbooks: Dick Erasures (Red Ceilings Press 2011), the collaboratively written at the intersection of 3 (Dancing Girl Press 2014), and Grief Is the Only Thing That Flies (Bateau Press 2018), which Arielle Greenberg selected for the Keel Chapbook Contest.

Her w88 online game has appeared in w88 online game, Poem-A-Day, Conjunctions, Pleiades, Narrative, among others, and in two anthologies: Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (Haymarket w88 online game 2020) and The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare (Nightboat Books 2012). Her essays and w88 online game reviews have appeared in The Volta, Hyperallergic, Full Stop, Jacket2, 1508, and in an anthology on the poet Tim Atkins, Nothing on Atkins (Crater Press 2023). Her w88 online game is a two-time recipient of the Nevada Arts Council’s Literary Arts Fellowship and was awarded a 2014 Artist Grant from the Sierra Arts Foundation.

w88 online game's editorial experience includes co-founding and, for a decade, co-editing textsound.org: an online journal of experimental w88 online game and sound. She developed an integrated curriculum in 2013 for graduate and undergraduate students working on the Sierra Nevada Review and for four years taught those classes. In 2014 she joined Baobab w88 online game as their w88 online game editor.

Laura grew up in Virginia and Nevada and taught English as a foreign language for a year in France between undergrad and graduate school. w88 online game lived in the Netherlands from 2017-2023 and is now back in Reno