Laura Joyce Hubbard
Poetry
Highland Park, IL
Laura Joyce-Hubbard is a Northwestern University MFA candidate and fiction editor for TriQuarterly. Her nonfiction and poetry appear or are forthcoming in The Sewanee Review, The Rumpus, Boulevard, Ninth Letter, Hippocampus, Line of Advance, Tupelo Quarterly, TriQuarterly, the anthology, Our Best War Stories (Middle West Press, 2020), and elsewhere. Recent awards include the 2021 Sewanee Review Poetry contest runner-up, the 2020 Janecek Fellowship from Ragdale Foundation, a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship to attend the VCCA, and the 2020 Essay Winner Prize in the William Faulkner Pirates' Alley Writing Competition. Her essays and poetry have been awarded finalist recognition by The Iowa Review, Hunger Mountain, Ruminate Magazine, The Sewanee Review, the Tucson Literary Book Festival, and Writer’s Digest.
Laura flew C-130s in the U.S. Air Force, where she served for 20 years. Her work examines military service and aviation through the perspective of one of the 4% female U.S. Air Force pilots flying during her career.
Paisley Rekdal, who selected her poem, “Escort Officer Duty,” as the runner-up of The Sewanee Review’s 2021 poetry contest, described her work as: “a sequence of taut lyrics that investigate one of the more invisible aspects of our endless war: the work of escort officers, who must carry out some of the more painful work of war. While highly readable, the poem deliberately leaves as much unsaid as said, requiring close attention on the part of the reader that becomes, over the sequence, a kind of devotional work.”
Laura is represented by Anna Sproul-Latimer, Neon Literary.
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