Laura Shovan is Pushcart Prize-nominated poet whose work appears in journals and anthologies for children and adults. Books include Mountain, Log, Salt, and Stone (Harriss Poetry Prize winner), The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary, Takedown, and A Place at the Table (Sydney Taylor Notable), written with Saadia Faruqi. Laura is a poet-in-the-schools for the Maryland State Arts Council and teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Her latest publications include: Welcome to Monsterville (Apprentice House, 2023)/"Hawk," Greening the Earth: A Global Anthology of Poetry ( Penguin Random House, 2023)/"Music and Matzo," On All Other Nights (Abrams, 2024)