About

Laura Madeline Wiseman is a doctoral candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she teaches English. She is co-editor (with Christine Stewart-Nunez) of the forthcoming anthology WOMEN WRITE RESISTANCE: POETS FIGHT GENDER VIOLENCE. She has received an Academy of American Poets Award and five Pushcart Prize nominations.

She is the author of three chapbooks, MY IMAGINARY (DANCING GIRL PRESS, 2010), GHOST GIRL (PUDDING HOUSE, 2010), and the forthcoming BRANDING GIRLS (FINISHING LINE PRESS, 2011).

She has new work in print format: poetry in Big Muddy, Pearl, Iguana Review, and Nebraska Life, and the anthologies Eating Her Wedding Dress and you say. say; creative non-fiction in Arts & Letters and Southern Indiana Review; and fiction in Fifth Wednesday Journal; a book review in Prairie Schooner.

And new work online: poetry in poemeleon, ScissorTale Review, and The Whistling Fire; fiction in American Short Fiction, Blackbird, and A Cappella Zoo; book reviews in e4w and on Lauren Greenfield.

Forthcoming work: poetry in Feminist Studies, which includes work by Marilyn Chin, Lana Hechtman Ayers, Lyn Lifshin, and Davi Walders.

Paul Lisicky selected her essay “Hunger” as the honorable mention in the Arts & Letters/Susan Atefat Prize in Creative Nonfiction. “Hunger” will appear in the spring issue 2010 of Arts & Letter.

There’s a mini-review of my poem “Dead Girl Brand II” in Big Muddy and a mini-review of a short story in Santa Fe here.