Laura Wetherington

Laura Wetherington (she/her) is a poet, teacher, and editor whose work often engages with the concept of translation and the untranslatable. Her publications include the poetry books Parallel Resting Places (Parlor Press, 2021), chosen by Peter Gizzi for the New Measure Poetry Prize, and A Map Predetermined and Chance (Fence Books, 2011), selected by C.S. Giscombe for the National Poetry Series, and the chapbook Little Machines (Salò Press, 2024) about early parenting in the Netherlands during the pandemic. She lived in the Netherlands for six years between 2017 and 2023, where she taught creative writing at Amsterdam University College. Now back in Nevada, Laura works as the poetry editor for Baobab Press and teaches with both the International Writers’ Collective and the low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe. She is collaborating with Hannah Ensor on visual sonnets working toward a book-length project