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Laura Boss, a national award-winning poet, was a first prize winner in Poetry
Society of America’s Gordon Barber Poetry Contest. Founder and Editor of Lips
poetry magazine, she was the sole representative of the USA in 1987 at the
XXVI Annual International Struga Poetry Readings in Yugoslavia. Her awards for
her own poetry also include an American Literary Translators Association Award (funded through the National Endowment for the Arts), and Fellowships in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State in 1999, 1992, and 1986.
Laura's books of poetry include Stripping (Chantry Press, 1982), the award-winning On the Edge of the Hudson (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1986), and Reports from the Front (CCC, 1995) which was nominated for an American Book Award. Her most recent book is Arms: New and Selected Work (Guernica Editions, 1999). Her poetry has appeared in The New York Times. In 1998 her manuscript was one of ten finalists in the country in Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Castagnola Award.