Laura McKee is a Lecturer in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication (WRAP) program. She received her MFA from the University of Maryland and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford. She has taught writing at several institutions, including Stanford, Emory, and the University of West Georgia, where she also co-directed the STEM-to-STEAM composition program. Her work has appeared (under L.S. McKee) in The Georgia Review, New England Review Digital, and Best New Poets 2016, among other journals, and she has recently held residencies at VCCA (Virginia Center for the Creative Arts) and Vermont Studio Center.