About the Author: Laura Mullen is the author of eight books, her work is included in American Hybrid as well as PostModern American Poetry (Norton) and she was the recipient of an NEA Fellowship for poetry as well as a Rona Jaffe Award. Recent poems have appeared in The Nation, Lana Turner, Poetry, 1111, and the Bennington Review. A poetry movie was featured at The Continental Review and Black Square Editions just published HERO, her translation of Veronique Pittolo’s Heros. She lives in New Orleans.