Laura Mullen

Laura Mullen (born 1958 in Los Angeles), is an American poet who has published 9 books of poetry.

Mullen received her BA in English from UC Berkeley and her MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, before going to teach at, among other places, Colorado State University, where her courses included seminars on Modernism, Postmodernism, and Cross-Genre Writing.

She was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1988 and has since received numerous other fellowships in the United States and abroad.

A professor at Louisiana State University for 17 years, in 2021, she became the Kenan Chair of Humanities at Wake Forest University.

On October 12, 2023, Mullen published on X (formerly Twitter) a condemnation of Israeli occupation: "So it's kind of a Duh but if you turn me out of my house plow my Olive Groves under and confine what's left of my family to the small impoverished state you run as an open air prison I could be tempted to shoot up your dance party yeah even knowing you will scorch the earth."

As a result of the backlash, she resigned her position and left North Carolina.

She’s also been invited as a guest author to teach at Brown University (2001, 2017), Naropa University's Summer Writing Program (1996, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2008), Columbia College – Chicago - (spring semester 2003), Brown University (2001), and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop Summer Program, (1998).