Laura Juliet Wood, originally from Pensacola, Florida, holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from Hollins University and an M.F.A. in Fiction from Columbia University. She has lived in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico for 20 years where she teaches English and writing to young people and adults, translates, edits and writes. Her translations of prose and poetry in Spanish have appeared in Mexico City’s The Ofi Press and the anthology Solamente en San Miguel, Volumes I and II.  Her poems have appeared in SOL magazine, Haibun Today, Crab Creek Review, The Hollins Critic, The Los Angeles Review, The Atlanta Review, Minerva Rising and The West Marin Review among many others..  In March, 2012 she was named one of two finalists in AROHO’s Orlando Poetry prize. Conferences and workshops include Under the Volcano, Hedgebrook, San Miguel Poetry Week and Sewanee Writers' Conference.  She most recently taught poetry for The San Miguel Summer Workshops and The San Miguel International Writers’ Conference as well as at The Pensacola Cultural Center. Her two collections of poems All Hands Lost and Dreaming During the Advent of Rain are both published by Finishing Line Press. She is also co-translator with Allen Josephs of Fernando Valverde’s The Insistence of Harm.