LAURA ANN REED is the author of the chapbooks, Each Abrasion Inside Love, (forthcoming from dancing girl Press, Fall 2026), and Homage to Kafka (Poetry Box, 2025). Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in numerous journals, as well as in twelve anthologies including Poetry of Presence II (Grayson Books, 2023) and The Wonder of SmallThings (Storey Publishing 2023).  Reed holds master’s degrees in clinical psychology and performing arts.  She lives with her husband, Grant Reed, in the Pacific Northwest.

Laura Ann is the featured poet in this special issue of The Pasticheur, and we are honored to introduce her Nelly Sachs Cycle: A Circling.

More about the author may be found on her website.