Laurie Lamon

Laurie Lamon (born 1956) is an American poet.

Education Lamon earned her bachelor's degree from Whitworth College (now Whitworth University) in Spokane, Washington, her master's in fine arts from the University of Montana, and her doctorate in English literature from the University of Utah in 1988.

Career Lamon is an associate professor of English at Whitworth University and teaches courses that include poetry workshop, creative writing, and contemporary American poetry.

Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, Ploughshares, The New Criterion, The Colorado Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Arts & Letters Journal of Contemporary Culture, Feminist Studies, Primavera, Poetry Northwest, and Northwest Review.

Awards 2001 Pushcart Prize for the poem, Pain Thinks of the Beautiful Table 2002 Graves Award in the Humanities. 2007 Witter Bynner Fellow, named by U.S. poet laureate Donald Hall

Works

Anthologies

Ploughshares