Laura Orem is a writer, artist, and teacher living in Red Lion, PA. She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and is managing editor of Toad Hall Press. She is a featured blogger at The Best American Poetry Blog, and her work has appeared in many venues, both in print and online, including Delirious Hem, DQM, The Barefoot Review, Innisfree, OCHO, Nimrod, and The Writer’s Chronicle. She teaches writing at Goucher College in Baltimore.