Laura Jaramillo received her M.A. in poetry in 2007. The title of her thesis was Photoplay. Originally a native of Queens, New York, she was the recipient of a Zora Neale Hurston Scholarship at Naropa University in the summer of 2004. Her work has appeared in Pocket Myths: The Odyssey, The Bard Papers, The Bard College Journal of the Moving Image, and Forge. She has poems forthcoming in P-QUEUE.