Lao Rubert lives in Durham, North Carolina. Her poems are forthcoming – or have appeared – in About Place Journal, Atlanta Review, Barzakh, Collateral, Mantis, Muleskinner, Pinesong Award Anthology, Poetry East, Spillway, The Avenue, Writers Resist and elsewhere. Rubert holds an M.A. in English Literature from Duke University and has spent a career working to reform the criminal justice system.
