Laura Madeline Wiseman

Born in Iowa and raised in the Midwest, Laura Madeline Wiseman earned a BA from Iowa State University, an MA from the University of Arizona, and a PhD from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she teaches English and creative writing.

Wiseman is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Journey to Nowhere (2019), What a Bicycle Can Carry (2018), Velocipede (2016), An Apparently Impossible Adventure (2016), Drink (2015), Wake (2015), Some Fatal Effects of Curiosity and Disobedience (2014), Queen of the Platform (2013), and Sprung (2012), as well as many chapbooks. She is also the editor of Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence (2013). Mindy Kronenberg in Weave Magazine described Wiseman’s poetry as “evocative,” adding, “Branding Girls amuses, alarms, and ultimately affirms in its eloquent confrontation of female stereotypes.”

Wiseman has received an Academy of American Poets Award, a Mari Sandoz/Prairie Schooner Award, a Susan Atefact Peckham Fellowship, a Louise Van Sickle Fellowship, and grants from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Center for the Great Plains Studies, and the Wurlitzer Foundation. She lives in Nebraska.