Laura Ingram is a poet who lives and writes in rural Virginia. Her poetry and prose have been featured in over one-hundred literary magazines and journals, among them Divot Lit and Five on the Fifth. She is the author of six collections of poetry; The Tafetta Parable, Mirabilis, Junior Citizen's Discount, The Ghost Gospels, Animal Sentinel, and The Solitude of the Female Preying Mantis.