Laura Shore

Laura Jan Shore writes and teaches poetry in the Byron Shire. She was a founding member and President of Dangerously Poetic Press, a community reading series and poetry press initiated in 2000 which published 17 collections over the past 25 years. Her poetry collections include Breathworks (Dangerously Poetic Press, 2002), Water over Stone (winner Best Poetry 2011, Interactive Press, 2011), Afterglow (Interactive Press, 2020). Her latest, The Generosity of Birds won the 2023 Louis Award, Concrete Wolf Press, Oregon, USA, 2024.

Her work has appeared in anthologies and literary journals on four continents including The Griffith Review, Magma and The Best Australian Poems 2013. She’s also the author of YA novel, The Sacred Moon Tree, (Bradbury Press,1986) nominated for the Washington Irving Children’s Book Award.  In 2019, she received her MFA in Poetry from Pacific University in Oregon.