Lauren Tivey is the author of four chapbooks, most recently Moroccan Holiday, which was the winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize 2019, and The Breakdown Atlas & Other Poems (Big Table Publishing Company, 2011). She received her undergraduate degree in Poetry and Literature from Granite State College, and her MFA in Poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she was the recipient of the Jack Myers Grant for Outstanding Poetry. Tivey is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and her work has appeared in Connotation Press, The Coachella Review, and Split Lip Magazine, among dozens of web and print publications in the U.S. and U.K. After much international travel, including a six year stint in China, she now resides with her Scottish husband, and a little black cat named Poppet, in a cottage surrounded by flower gardens in St. Augustine, Florida. She teaches English and Creative Writing at Flagler College.