Because It Is Our Custom Not to Eat Our Dead – Broadside

About the Author

Laura Lauth teaches creative writing at the University of Maryland’s Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House, where she served as founding director from 2002-2005. She was recipient of the spring 2014 Orlando Prize in Poetry, and her poems have recently appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, The Los Angeles Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly, among others. She lives outside Washington, DC with her husband and two sons.