Laura Apol is an internationally published poet and writer and an associate professor at Michigan State University, where she teaches creative writing and children’s/young adult literature.
Laura has published widely in the areas of literacy education, children’s and young adult literature, the teaching of poetry, and arts-based research methodologies. She is the author of several prize-winning collections of poetry, including Nothing but the Blood (Michigan State University Press, 2018), which won the Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry, was a silver-medal winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award, and was a finalist for the Annual Midwest Book Award. Her newest poetry collection, A Fine Yellow Dust, was released in August 2021.
Laura has conducted writing-for-healing workshops in a number of national and international contexts, and her recent publication, Poetry, Poetic Inquiry, and Rwanda: Engaging with the Lives of Others (Springer International, 2021) focuses on arts-based inquiry, international collaboration, and the therapeutic uses of writing in response to trauma.
From 2019-2021, Laura served as the Lansing-area Poet Laureate, and she continues to do readings and workshops for writers of all ages and levels of experience.
Recent Readings
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Recent workshops
Poetry workshops offered by Laura Apol
