HACK | Laura Bandy

Laura Bandy attended the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers PhD program from 2009 to 2013, where she received the Joan Johnson Poetry Award. In 2018, she won first prize in the "Trio of Triolets" contest judged by Allison Joseph, and received third place in the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award/ Illinois Emerging Writers Competition that same year. She has had work published in Soft Skull's Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry, Ninth Letter, Sin Fronteras, River Styx, Typo, and The Laurel Review among others, and currently has poems in Midwest Review and Longleaf Review, with work forthcoming in The Florida Review. She is a twin and SUCH a Virgo. Laura hails from Jacksonville, Illinois, home of the Ferris wheel.   After the Proposal My turn to ride the tractor, I drove it into the side of a barn. It was decided I was a passenger from that point on. Kimmy dug a snow disc out of the cellar along with a length of rope she hooked onto the bac