Laura Foley is the author of, most recently, Sledding the Valley of the Shadow, and Ice Cream for Lunch: A Grandparents Handbook. She has won a Narrative Magazine Poetry Prize, Common Good Books Poetry Prize, Poetry Box Editor's Choice Chapbook Award, Bisexual Book Award, and others. Her work has been widely published in such journals as Alaska Quarterly, Valparaiso Poetry Review, American Life in Poetry, featured often on The Writer's Almanac, and included in anthologies such as How to Love the World and Poetry of Presence. For many years she worked as a volunteer in the No One Alone program at DHMC, was trained as a chaplain in hospitals and prisons, and is a certified yoga instructor. She holds graduate degrees in Literature from Columbia University, and lives with her wife on the steep banks of the Connecticut River in West Lebanon, New Hampshire.
