Laura A. Ciraolo was born in New York City and has lived and worked there as long as she can remember. Most recently her poems have appeared in The Centrifugal Eye, Orbis #155 (UK), The Cortland Review #49, The New York Quarterly #66, and The Medulla Review. Her poems have also appeared in Agenda (UK), Long Island Quarterly, MiPOesias, The Comstock Review and others in the US, UK and Japan. She was a finalist for the 2010 Bordighera Poetry Prize.