Laura Read (Spokane) has published poems in a variety of journals  most recently in Alaska Quarterly Review and New Madrid Her chapbook  The Chewbacca on Hollywood Boulevard Reminds Me of You  was the 2010 winner of the Floating Bridge Chapbook Award  and her collection  Instructions for My Mother’s Funeral  was the 2011 winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and was published in 2012 by the University of Pittsburgh Press