Laurie Blauner

Laurie Blauner is a writer who has published nine poetry collections and five novels, according to the Jack Straw Cultural Center. Her hybrid nonfiction book is titled I Was One of My Memories. Her poetry collection Come Closer, a set of prose-poem fables, won the 2022 Library of Poetry Award from The Bitter Oleander Press. The press published the book in 2023. Reviewers and fellow writer Stephanie Dickinson have praised the book's surreal, cerebral style.