Lauren Marie Schmidt

LAUREN MARIE SCHMIDT is the author of three other collections of poetry: Two Black Eyes and a Patch of Hair Missing ; T he Voodoo Doll Parade , selected for the Main Street Rag Author's Choice Chapbook Series; and Psalms of the Dining Room , a sequence of poems about Schmidt's volunteer experience at a soup kitchen in Eugene, Oregon. Her work has appeared in journals such as North American Review , Alaska Quarterly Review , Rattle , Nimrod , Painted Bride Quarterly , PANK , New York Quarterly ...See more

LAUREN MARIE SCHMIDT is the author of three other collections of poetry: Two Black Eyes and a Patch of Hair Missing ; T he Voodoo Doll Parade , selected for the Main Street Rag Author's Choice Chapbook Series; and Psalms of the Dining Room , a sequence of poems about Schmidt's volunteer experience at a soup kitchen in Eugene, Oregon. Her work has appeared in journals such as North American Review , Alaska Quarterly Review , Rattle , Nimrod , Painted Bride Quarterly , PANK , New York Quarterly , Bellevue Literary Review , and The Progressive , among others. Her awards include the So to Speak Poetry Prize, the Neil Postman Award for Metaphor, the Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize, and the Bellevue Literary Review' s Marica and Jan Vilcek Prize for Poetry. See less