Laurie Sheck

Laurie Sheck is the author of Island of the Mad (Counterpoint, 2016) and A Monster’s Notes, a re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Her book of poems, The Willow Grove, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She has taught at Princeton, CUNY and Rutgers, and is currently a member of the MFA faculty at the New School.