photograph by Heather McHugh

Laura Ann Reed is the author of the chapbooks, Each Abrasion Inside Love (dancing girl press, 2026) and Homage to Kafka, (Poetry Box, 2023). Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and Best of Small Fictions and has appeared in numerous journals including Sontag Mag, Cathexis Northwest, wildness (England), The Laurel Review, Persimmon Tree, The Pasticheur: Literature, Arts & Ideas, and Trace Fossils Review, as well as in twelve anthologies including Poetry of Presence II (Grayson Books, 2023), 2026 World Poetry Day Anthology, (Moonstone Publishing, 2026), and The Wonder of Small Things (Storey Publishing, 2023). Reed holds master’s degrees in clinical psychology and performing arts. Born in Berkeley, California, she earned her B.A. in French/Comparative Literature from The University of California, Berkeley, which included a year at l’Université Aix-Marseille in France. She lives with her husband, Grant Reed, in the Pacific Northwest.