Laurel Radzieski

Laurel Radzieski is a poet and the author of two books, Leaf Manifesto, winner of Middle Creek Publishing & Audio's 2024 Halcyon Award for Poetry, and Red Mother (NYQ Books, 2018), a love story told from the perspective of a parasite that won the 2020 Whirling Prize in Poetry from Etchings Press. Her poems have appeared in Clockhouse, Rust + Moth, The New York Quarterly, Atlas and Alice, House of Zolo's Journal of Speculative Literature, and elsewhere, including on a street sign and roadsides in Wisconsin. She earned her MFA at Goddard College and has been a writer-in-residence at Wormfarm Institute. Laurel enjoys writing poems for strangers in community spaces. She lives in Reading, Pennsylvania and writes at Goggleworks Center for the Arts. When not writing poems, Laurel is the Director of Grants at Alvernia University. She enjoys playing board games that take up the whole table.