Lauren Tess

Biography

Lauren Tess’s poems have appeared in Rattle, Poetry Northwest, Witness, Nimrod, Salamander, Meridian, Tar River Poetry, Atlanta Review, Dialogist, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere. She earned an MFA at the University of Montana, where she was a poetry editor at CutBank. The recipient of an Academy of American Poets University Prize, Lauren lives with her family on the edge of Cleveland.