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Lauren Shapiro’s first collection of poetry, Easy Math, won the 2011 Kathryn A. Morton Prize, judged by Marie Howe, and was published in 2013 by Sarabande Books. She is also the author of a chapbook, Yo-Yo Logic, published by DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press (2012) and was co-editor of The New Census: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Rescue Press, 2013). She is an assistant professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.
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