Laurin Becker MaciosLaurin Becker Macios was born in Miami, Florida and raised just short of everywhere. Her chapbook I Almost Was Animal won the 2018 Writer's Relief WaterSedge Poetry Chapbook Contest and her work has appeared in Salamander, Green Mountain Review online, [PANK], The Pinch, and elsewhere. Currently a consultant for non-profit arts organizations, she is the former Executive Director of Mass Poetry and former Program Director of both the Poetry Society of America and Mass Poetry. In 2013 she earned her MFA in Creative Writing Poetry from the University of New Hampshire, where she taught on fellowship for three years. She lives in New York City with her husband, son, and Frenchie. Read More Read Less