Lauren Slaughter
“Birmingham is the birthplace of my children and my books. The best literary community one could ask for lives right here in the Magic City. Birmingham is where creation happens.”
Lauren Slaughter is author of the poetry collections, a lesson in smallness, which was a finalist for the Rousseau Prize for Literature and the Eric Hoffer Award in poetry, and, Spectacle, forthcoming from Pandhandler Books and the University Press of Florida. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her poems, essays, and short stories appear or are forthcoming in Image, North American Review, Love’s Executive Order, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, 32 Poems, Kenyon Review Online, and Canary, among many other places. She is an assistant professor of English at The University of Alabama at Birmingham where she is also Editor-in-Chief of NELLE, a literary journal that publishes writing by women. Find her at www.laurenslaughter.com.