Poet Laura Mullen was born in Los Angeles in 1958. She earned her BA at the University of California-Berkeley and MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her published works include Complicated Grief (2015), Enduring Freedom (2012), Dark Archive (2011), Murmur (2007), Subject (2005), After I Was Dead (1999), The Tales of Horror (1999), and The Surface (1991), which was a National Poetry Series selection. Known for writing book-length and hybrid texts, Mullen's work has been praised for its wild invention and play. Her poems are included in anthologies such as Postmodern American Poetry (2013), The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (2012), and I'll Drown my Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (2012), among others. The composer Jason Eckardt's setting of her poem "The Distance (This)" was released as Undersong by Mode records in 2011. In 2019 her translation of Véronique Pittolo's HERO was published by Black Square Editions; EtC, a collection of poems, is forthcoming from Solid Objects Press in 2023.
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