Poetry or Hybrid Manuscript Consultation with Laura Mullen

Poetry and hybrid work: up to 35 pages for chapbooks, up to 80 pages for full-length collections

Full-length collections:

First books: $250.00 (student rate $200)

Books by those who have already published at least one full-length collection: $325.00

Chapbooks:

Debut: $150.00 (student rate $100.00)

Non-debut: $225.00


Includes: 3 separate ½ hour zoom consultations: 1 to launch, 1 in progress, 1 to complete. All meetings include follow-up emails about the project on an as-needed basis.

Consultations will being in early March. The duration/cadence of the consultation process with be determined/agreed upon at the initial meeting.


Laura Mullen has taught at Naropa, Brown, Columbia College, Colby, Colorado State University, and Louisiana State University—among other institutions. Her students have published prize-winning and highly regarded books and chapbooks, and she is known for her close-reading, dedicated mentoring, and effective and innovative pedagogy. A   MacDowell and Karolyi Foundation Fellow, she has been a featured poet at the International Poetry Festival in Taipei, a Rona Jaffe Award recipient and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. Her poetry is anthologized in collections from Norton, Wesleyan, and elsewhere; recent work has appeared in the Harvard Review, Court Green, the Bennington Review, Diagram, and the Georgia Review. Mullen’s first book, The Surface, was a National Poetry Series selection, and her subsequent poetry collections and hybrid-genre works have been published by the University of California Press, FuturePoem, and Otis / Seismicity, among other presses. A CD of Jason Eckardt's setting of her poem "The Distance (This)" is available from Mode records. Her collaboration with composer Nathan Davis—"a Sound uttered, a Silence crossed"—had its premiere in La Jolla, and has been performed at Notre Dame and Williams College. A collaboration (Verge) with artist John David O'Brien was published in 2017, and her translation of Veronique Pittolo's Hero was published by Black Square Editions in 2019. Solid Objects published her ninth collection, EtC, in 2023.

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