Laurie Zimmerman is the author of the poetry collection Bright Exit (Quercus Review Press, 2014). Her work has appeared in New Letters, Poet Lore, Orion, Paterson Literary Review, and has won the River Styx prize, the New Letters Award, and a Pushcart nomination. She is former poetry editor at Radix Magazine, Berkeley, and she teaches at Proctor Academy in New Hampshire.