2019 Snyder Prize Winner: Laura Donnelly

We are pleased to announce that the 2019 Snyder Prize, chosen by Maggie Smith, goes to the manuscript Midwest Gothic by Laura Donnelly.  

Laura Donnelly’s first book of poetry, Watershed, won the 2013 Cider Press Review Editors’ Prize, and her poems have appeared in Indiana Review, Missouri Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Passages North, PANK, Mississippi Review, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the State University of New York at Oswego, where she teaches poetry writing and literature and serves as the director of Oswego’s visiting writers series.

Originally from Michigan, Donnelly received an MFA from Purdue University and a PhD in English/Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. Her work has been supported by fellowships and scholarships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Corporation of Yaddo, the I-Park Foundation, and the Sewanee Writers Conference.