Laurin Becker Macios is the author of Somewhere to Go, winner of the 19th annual poetry award from Elixir Press, and I Almost Was Animal winner of the 2018 Writer’s Relief WaterSedge Poetry Chapbook Contest. Her poetry has appeared in Green Mountains Review online, [PANK], and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in -ette review and Ibbetson Street. The former Executive Director of Mass Poetry and former Program Director of the Poetry Society of America, she earned her MFA in Creative Writing Poetry from the University of New Hampshire, where she taught on fellowship. She lives in Connecticut with her family.

REPRESENTATION

Allison Hellegers, Stimola Literary Studio

RECOGNITION

WINNER: ELIXIR PRESS’ 19TH ANNUAL POETRY AWARD, JUDGED BY LIZ ROBBINS

WINNER: THE WRITER’S RELIEF 2018 WATERSEDGE POETRY CHAPBOOK CONTEST, JUDGED BY SUSANNA LANG

Semi-finalist: The Newfound Chapbook Prize // 2023
Finalist: The Sunken Garden Poetry Chapbook Prize // 2019
Finalist: The Hudson Prize from Black Lawrence Press // 2018
Semi-finalist: Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award // 2018
Semi-finalist: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry from University of North Texas Press // 2017
Semi-finalist: The St. Lawrence Book Award from Black Lawrence Press // 2016
Finalist: The Hudson Prize from Black Lawrence Press // 2016
Shortlist: Fish Publishing Flash Fiction Prize // 2016
Semi-finalist: Tomaž Šalamun Prize from Verse // 2015
Semi-finalist: Frost Place Chapbook Competition // 2015
Finalist: Boston Review/92Y Unterberg Poetry Center Discovery Prize // 2014
Finalist: Paper Nautilus' Vella Chapbook Prize // 2013
Teaching Fellow: University of New Hampshire // 2010-2013
Rosenberry Prize Winner for Best Overall Literary Piece: University of Northern Colorado Literary Awards // 2006
First Place Prize Winner, Poetry: University of Northern Colorado Literary Awards // 2006

interviews

Getting to Know Laurin Macios and Her New Book I ALMOST WAS ANIMAL // Mass Poetry // 2018
Poetic Structure // Take Magazine // 2017
Mass Poetry’s Laurin Macios: A Poet Who ‘Feels’ Her Poems (edited transcription) // The Somerville Times // 2016
Interview with Laurin Macios // r.kv.ry quarterly literary journal // 2016