Laura Madeline Wiseman has a doctorate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she teaches English. She is the author of five chapbooks, including the recent collections Branding Girls (Finishing Line Press, 2011), Ghost Girl (Pudding House Publications, 2010), and My Imaginary (Dancing Girl Press, 2010).  A sixth chapbook She Who Loves Her Father is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press, a seventh chapbook The Puppet Wife is forthcoming from Pudding House Publications, and a full-length collection, Sprung, is forthcoming from San Francisco Bay Press. She is also the editor of the anthology Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence forthcoming from Blue Light Press in 2013.

Her poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and reviews have appeared in Margie, Poet Lore, Blackbird, Arts & Letters, Prairie Schooner, 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, and the Center for the Great Plains Studies.

Interviews & Articles

An interview “Women of LFF: Laura Madeline Wiseman,” in Les Femmes Folles by Sally Deskins on Nebraska women artists and writers.

An interview “Meet the Residents: Laura Madeline Wiseman” in The Suction Cup by Kate Johnson on Prairie Center of the Arts‘ writer residencies.

An interview “The Habitual Poet: Laura Madeline Wiseman” in Poemeleon edited by Cati Porter about reading and writing poetry.

An interview “The Ground Floor: Laura Madeline Wiseman” in The Floorboard Review edited by Jen Kindbom about writing and inspiration.

An interview “The Circle of Light with Laura Madeline Wiseman” in Roanoke Review with Mary Crockett Hill about poetry and the writing process.

An article by Gregory R. Norfleet “Poet Seeks Inspiration of Hoover, Ancestor” in West Branch Times.