Laura Isabela Amsel was born in the Mississippi Delta and now lives in Madison, Mississippi. She holds an MA in Spanish from Middlebury College. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Terrain, Another Chicago Magazine, Cloudbank, Common Ground Review, wildness, Nimrod International Journal, Harbor Review, and Atlanta Review. Her poem “Father” won the 2022 Monica Taylor Poetry Prize, judged by Airini Beautrais, and her poem “Cain” won the 2022 Mikrokosmos Poetry Prize, judged by A.E. Stallings. A Brief Campaign of Sting and Sweet is her first book of poetry.
