Lara Mimosa Montes

Lara Mimosa Montes is a writer based in Minneapolis and New York. Her poems and essays have appeared in Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, BOMB, Boston Review, and Jacket2, and her second book, Thresholes, is forthcoming from Coffee House Press. She is a 2018 McKnight Writing Fellow and CantoMundo Fellow. She holds a PhD in English from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Currently, she works as a senior editor of Triple Canopy. She was born in the Bronx.

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Literary Stretch Break with Lara Mimosa Montes
An accompaniment to her reading, this post pulls out popular listener questions—Can you talk about the process and the experience of researching for this collection? Do you collaborate across media as an artist? What does collaboration bring to your work?—and Lara's responses to them.
Lara Mimosa Montes
Apr. 28