Laura Theobald

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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 VoltaHobartThe Atlas ReviewEveryday 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:

BA in Literature, University of Tampa 
BA in Creative Writing, University of Tampa 
MFA in Creative Writing, Louisiana State University 

Research Interests:

Authenticity, Irony, and the Postmodern Novel 
History of the Memoir and Autofiction 
Contemporary Poetry and Pedagogy