PhD Candidate Project Editor, UGA Press Laura Theobald is an editor at the University of Georgia Press and an English PhD candidate contemplating a creative dissertation at UGA. She is the author of three full-length poetry collections—Salad Days (Maudlin House, 2021), Kokomo (Disorder Press, 2019), and What My Hair Says About You (Metatron, 2017)—plus three chapbooks: Edna Poems (Lame House Press, 2016), The Best Thing Ever (Boost House, 2015), and eraser poems (H_ngm_n Books, 2014). She received an MFA from LSU, where she served as Managing Editor of the New Delta Review. Her poetry has appeared in jubilat, HTML Giant, The Volta, Hobart, The Atlas Review, Everyday Genius, Big Lucks, and Black Warrior Review, among others, and in anthologies including Women of Resistance (O/R Books, 2018). She is currently working on a fourth poetry collection and a work of autofiction. Education Education: BA in Literature, University of Tampa BA in Creative Writing, University of Tampa MFA in Creative Writing, Louisiana State University Research Research Interests: Authenticity, Irony, and the Postmodern Novel History of the Memoir and Autofiction Contemporary Poetry and Pedagogy
