Laura Joyce-Hubbard

Laura Joyce-Hubbard’s work appears in Poetry, The Iowa Review, The Sewanee Review, Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction was selected as a Notable in Best American Essays 2022 and 2023 and won an AWP Nonfiction Intro Journal Award. Laura was Finalist in the National Poetry Series. She won The Iowa Review’s Veteran Writing Award, the Poetry Porch Prize, the Ned Stuckey-French Nonfiction Contest at Southeast Review, and the Individual Poem Prize and Essay Prize in the William Faulkner Pirate’s Alley Writing Competition. Laura’s work has been supported by Aspen Words, the Fine Arts Work Center, Longleaf Writers, Community Building Art Works, and the National Endowment for the Arts with a residency at VCCA. A twenty-year veteran of the US Air Force, she was among the first women to pilot the C-130 after legal exclusions were lifted. Currently, Laura serves as the inaugural Highland Park Poet Laureate and a fiction editor at TriQuarterly.

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