photograph by Heather McHugh

Laura Ann Reed is the author of the chapbook Homage to Kafka (Poetry Box, 2025). Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has appeared or is forthcoming in The Laurel Review, The MSU Roadrunner Review, wildness, Humana Obscura, Bicoastal Review, The Merion Review, among other journals, as well as in nine anthologies including Poetry of Presence II (Grayson Books, 2023) and The Wonder of Small Things (Storey Publishing, 2023) Reed holds master’s degrees in clinical psychology and performing arts. She was born in Berkeley, California and she earned her B.A. from The University of California, Berkeley, which included a year at l’Université Aix-Marseille in France.