Lauren Shapiro

Lauren Shapiro is a poet and an associate professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University. Her collection BRID was published by Veliz Books in 2024. Her earlier poetry collections include Arena (2020) and Easy Math (2013), the latter winning the Kathryn A. Morton Prize. She also co-edited an anthology of contemporary American poetry with Kevin González. BRID addresses motherhood, divorce, and grief during the pandemic, mixing prose poem passages with lyric poems.