Laura Davenport is the author of Dear Vulcan (LSU Press, 2020) and the chapbook Little Hates (Dancing Girl Press, 2016). Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2009, Crab Orchard Review, Meridian, Connotation Press, and others. Her prose has appeared in the Ploughshares Writers on Writing blog. She received an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and lives in Savannah, Georgia.