Poet, essayist, author of GHOST HOUR and HAVING BEEN AN ACCOMPLICE

Ghost Hour

Sometimes compact, sometimes expansive, the poems in Ghost Hour emanate from adolescence and other liminal spaces, considering girlhood and contemporary womanhood―the ways both are fraught with the pleasures and limits of embodiment. As in her previous poetry, Laura Cronk writes personally, intimately, yet never without profound consideration of onslaught of contemporary violence, which we must love in spite of and rage against.

Having Been an Accomplice

Winner of the 2011 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry
In this arresting debut, love poems and interior monologues are reinvented in a time of war. Within them, Laura Cronk writes, “I want to blow up the Law with Language, having run my tongue around my mouth ten thousand times. Instead of not speaking, I want to speak.”

Laura Cronk is a poet and essayist and the author of two books of poems, Ghost Hour and Having Been an Accomplice from Persea Books. Her poems and essays appear in journals and anthologies such as Action, Spectacle, The American Poetry Review, The Bennington Review, Court Green, Iterant, Lit Hub, Poets & Writers Magazine, and several editions of Best American Poetry. She teaches and collaborates with writers at The New School where she is an assistant professor of writing and poetry chair for the MFA in Creative Writing graduate program. Originally from Indiana, she has lived in and around New York City for many years.