Laura Mullen earned her BA at the University of California-Berkeley and MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. Her collections of poetry include EtC (2023), Complicated Grief (2015), Enduring Freedom (2012), Dark Archive (2011), Murmur (2007), After I Was Dead (1999), and The Surface (1991), which was a National Poetry Series selection. Her poems are included in anthologies such as American Hybrid (2009), The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (2012), and I'll Drown my Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (2012), among others. Black Square Editions published her translation of Véronique Pittolo’s HERO (2019) and an artist’s book with photographs by John David O’Brien, Verge, was published in a limited edition in 2018.