Laura Neuman grew up in San Francisco and currently lives in the Pacific Northwest. She/ze is the author of one chapbook, The Busy Life (Gazing Grain). Hir poems have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Tinge, Fact-Simile, EOAGH, The Encyclopedia Project, and TROUBLING THE LINE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TRANS & GENDERQUEER POETRY (Chax Press and Nightboat). She has also collaborated with dancers, and from 2007-2011 was a co-conspirator with The Workshop for Potential Movement. Laura has an MA in Poetry from Temple University and an MFA from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.