Laura Hanna advises honors students at Valdosta State University's Honors College and is earning a doctorate in education at the same institution. She also teaches English at Wiregrass Georgia Technical College. Laura's previous degrees are in English literature; she holds an MA in English from Auburn University. Laura's primary research and teaching interests include curriculum and instruction; contemporary poetry and poetry writing; post-Civil War American literature; and critical and process pedagogy. Laura is also the founding editor and editor-in-chief of *These Fragile Lilacs Poetry Journal*.