Laura Tanenbaum is a Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, where she has taught composition, literature and creative writing for eighteen years. She also serves as a union representative at LaGuardia. Her poems and short stories have appeared in Rust & Moth, Cleaver Magazine, Aji, Rattle, On the Seawall, and many other publications. She has also published essays and book reviews for The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, Dissent, and other venues. Originally from the Chicago area, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two school-age children.
