Laura Shovan is an honors graduate of the Dramatic Writing Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She has been active in the Geralding R. Dodge Foundation's Poetry Program, and coordinated poetry readings by award-winning teens at the 1996 and 1998 Dodge Poetry Festivals.

Other poems by Laura Shovan in Verse Daily:
March 28, 2005:  "Snowies and Blues," "Brother, Sister," and "Endangered" ""Where there is no accumulation, laced and soft, come flocks..."

Books by Laura Shovan:

Laura Shovan According to Wikipedia.

About Mountain, Log, Salt, and Stone:

"Laura Shovan enlivens her quotidian subjects with a shrewd and powerful use of metaphor, a critical strategy all too often neglected in contemporary work."
—Michael Salcman