CCA's Writers Series is open to the public and hosted by the MFA Program in Writing. Featured events also comprise the Friday Seminar course requirement for MFA Writing candidates.

Laura Mullen is the author of six books:

The Surface
After I Was Dead
Subject
Dark Archives (University of California press, 2011)
Murmur

Her seventh and forthcoming book is Endearing Freedom: A Little Book of Mechanical Brides (Seismicity Books/Otis Editions, 2012).

Recognitions for her poetry include Ironwood’s Stanford Prize, two Board of Regents ATLAS grants, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Rona Jaffe Award, among other honors. She has had several MacDowell Fellowships and is a frequent visitor at the Summer Writing Program at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa.

Mullen's work has been widely anthologized and is included in American Hybrid (Norton) and I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women (Les Figues).

Mullen is the McElveen professor in English at Louisiana State University and a special interest delegate in creative writing for the Modern Language Association. She is a contributing editor for the online poetry site The Volta.

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