photograph by Heather McHugh

Laura Ann Reed was born in Berkeley, California, earned her B.A. from The University of California, Berkeley which included a year at l’Université Aix-Marseille in France, and lived most of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area before relocating to the Pacific Northwest with her husband, Grant Reed, in 2004. She earned a master’s degree in the performing arts and taught modern dance and ballet at the University of California before earning a master’s degree in clinical psychology.  Her work has been published in seven anthologies, including Poetry of Presence Volume II and has appeared in numerous journals in the United States, Great Britain and Ireland.  She is a contributing editor with the Montréal Review.