Lauren Shapiro

Lauren Shapiro is the author of Arena (CSU Poetry Center, 2020), listed as a top poetry book of 2020 in The New York Times , and Easy Math (Sarabande, 2013), which was the winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and the Debut-litzer Prize for Poetry. With Kevin Gonz lez, she co-edited The New Census: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Rescue Press, 2013). Chapbooks include House (forthcoming 2024, Finishing Line Press) and Yo-Yo Logic (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press, 2012). She has...See more

Lauren Shapiro is the author of Arena (CSU Poetry Center, 2020), listed as a top poetry book of 2020 in The New York Times , and Easy Math (Sarabande, 2013), which was the winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and the Debut-litzer Prize for Poetry. With Kevin Gonz lez, she co-edited The New Census: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Rescue Press, 2013). Chapbooks include House (forthcoming 2024, Finishing Line Press) and Yo-Yo Logic (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press, 2012). She has translated poetry and prose from Spanish, Italian, Vietnamese, and Arabic into English; her translation of Zaira Pacheco's Despertar en el Sahara will be published by Eulalia Books. Shapiro is an associate professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University. See less