Laurin Becker Macios was born in Miami, Florida and has called many places home — including Florida, Germany, North Carolina, Colorado, Holland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York. Somewhere to Go, her debut full-length book, won the 19th annual poetry award from Elixir Press, and her chapbook I Almost Was Animal won the 2018 Writer’s Relief WaterSedge Poetry Chapbook Contest. Her poetry has appeared in Salamander, Green Mountains Review online, [PANK], Boxcar Poetry Review, The Pinch, Third Wednesday, and elsewhere. She is the former Executive Director of Mass Poetry and former Program Director of both the Poetry Society of America and Mass Poetry. In 2013 she earned her MFA in Creative Writing Poetry from the University of New Hampshire, where she taught on fellowship for three years. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, sons, and French Bulldog.