Laura Madeline Wiseman is the author of seven collections of poetry, including the full-length book SPRUNG (San Francisco Bay Press, 2012), the letterpress book UNCLOSE THE DOOR (Gold Quoin Press, 2012), and the recent chapbooks SHE WHO LOVES HER FATHER (Dancing Girl Press, 2012) and BRANDING GIRLS (Finishing Line Press, 2011). She is also the editor of WOMEN WRITE RESISTANCE: POETS RESIST GENDER VIOLENCE (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013).Laura Madeline Wiseman has a doctorate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she teaches English. Her poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and reviews have appeared in Margie, Poet Lore, Blackbird, Arts & Letters, Prairie Schooner, Feminist Studies, Thirteenth Moon, American Short Fiction, Cream City Review, and elsewhere.She has received an Academy of American Poets Award, a Mari Sandoz/Prairie Schooner Award, a Will P. Jupiter Award, a Susan Atefact Peckham Fellowship, a Louise Van Sickle Fellowship, several Pushcart Prize nominations, and grants from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Focus for the Arts, the Center for the Great Plains Studies, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation.