Lara Mimosa Montes

Lara Mimosa Montes is a writer, editor, and teaching artist. She is the author of two books of poetry, including THRESHOLES, published by Coffee House Press. Her poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets, BOMB, Poetry, the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from the McKnight Foundation, MacDowell, Headlands Center for the Arts, and CantoMundo. She teaches creative writing at Augsburg University and Pacific Northwest College of Art.