Laura Joyce Hubbard
Highland Park, IL
Nonfiction
Laura Joyce-Hubbard is a poet, essayist, and fiction editor for TriQuarterly. Her nonfiction and poetry appear or are forthcoming in Creative Nonfiction, the Sewanee Review, the Chicago Tribune, the Rumpus, Boulevard, Ninth Letter, River Teeth, Hippocampus, Tupelo Quarterly, TriQuarterly, the anthology, WANTING (Catapult, 2023), and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts to attend a residency at VCCA. She won the 2021 Ned Stuckey-French nonfiction contest at Southeast Review and the 2020 Essay Prize in the William Faulkner Pirates' Alley Writing Competition. Her essays and poetry have been awarded finalist recognition by the Iowa Review, Columbia Journal, Hunger Mountain, Ruminate Magazine, the Sewanee Review, Writer’s Digest, Frontier Poetry, and elsewhere. She served twenty years in the US Air Force, was among the first women to pilot the C-130H, and is currently pursuing an MFA at Northwestern University in Nonfiction and Poetry.