Laura Ann Reed, a Contributing Editor with The Montréal Review, is a San Francisco Bay Area native whose work has been published in literary journals as well as in seven anthologies based in the UK, Ireland, Canada and the USA.  She taught modern dance and ballet at the University of California, Berkeley prior to her role as Leadership Development trainer at the Environmental Protection Agency. Now retired, she lives with her husband in the Pacific Northwest. Her most recent work is forthcoming in Illuminations. Her first chapbook, Shadows Thrown, was published in 2023.