Laura McCullough’s most recent books of poetry are Rigger Death & Hoist Another, Panic, and Speech Acts. She is the editor of two anthologies, The Room & the World: Essays on the Poet Stephen Dunn, Syracuse University Press, fall, 2013, and Poetry and Race: the Task of Un/masking, University of Georgia Press, spring, 2014. She is the editor of Mead: the Magazine of Literature and Libations www.meadmagazine.org.