Laura Sobbott Ross grew up in Venezuela, Arkansas and Virginia. She is a freelance architectural designer and resides in central Florida with her husband, daughter, and son. She was nominated for a 2007 Pushcart Prize, and has poetry published in or forthcoming in The Columbia Review, Tar River Poetry, Slow Trains, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, The Caribbean Writer, Kalliope, Cutthroat, and A Journal of the Arts, among many others. She was recently named as a finalist for the Creekwalker Poetry Prize.

In answer to our question of why she writes, Laura responded:

"I find that writing poetry soothes my core of nervous, creative energy. It is gratifying to take a little corner of the universe, assign it a sense of beauty and order and then release it back, disentangling bits of myself in the process."

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